Printed on the plate
“Grey-headed Staphida”
Staphida torqueola
Engraved caption: STAPEDA TORQUEOLA, Swinh.
Modern identification
Staphida torqueola
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies · Zosteropidae
Why
Swinhoe's Siva torqueola of south China = Indochinese Yuhina, Staphida torqueola, which eBird splits from the Striated Yuhina (IV.11).
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould & 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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