Printed on the plate
“Scouler's Forktail”
Enicurus Scouleri
Engraved caption: ENICURUS SCOULERI, Vigors.
Modern identification
Enicurus scouleri
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Vigors's Enicurus scouleri = Little Forktail: short tail, white forehead.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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