Printed on the plate
“Red-and-Blue Cissa”
Cissa pyrrhocyanea
Engraved caption: CISSA PYRRHOCYANEA.
Modern identification
Urocissa ornata
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
KU and the plate: chestnut and blue, the Sri Lanka Blue-Magpie; the survey guessed Common Green-Magpie
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
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