Printed on the plate
“White-capped Blue Pie”
Urocissa cucullata
Engraved caption: UROCISSA CUCULLATA, Gould.
Modern identification
Urocissa flavirostris
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Gould's Urocissa cucullata (Kullu) = U. flavirostris cucullata, the white-naped western race of Yellow-billed Blue-Magpie.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); 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.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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