Printed on the plate
“Tristram's Amydrus”
Amydrus Tristrami
Engraved caption: AMYDRUS TRISTRAMI, Sclater:
Modern identification
Onychognathus tristramii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Starlings · Sturnidae
Why
Sclater's Amydrus tristramii, figured from Tristram's own specimens = Tristram's Starling, Onychognathus tristramii.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); 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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.