Printed on the plate
“Formosan Blue Pie”
Urocissa cerulea
Engraved caption: UROCISSA CÆRULEA, Gould.
Modern identification
Urocissa caerulea
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Gould's own Urocissa caerulea of Formosa = Taiwan Blue-Magpie; same name today.
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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.