Printed on the plate
“Chinese Blue Pie”
Urocissa Sinensis
Engraved caption: UROCISSA SINENSIS.
Modern identification
Urocissa erythroryncha
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Linnaeus's Cuculus sinensis (syn. Gmelin's Corvus erythrorhynchos), the blue magpie of China = Red-billed Blue-Magpie, nominate race.
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.
