Printed on the plate
“Hunting Cissa”
Cissa venatoria
Engraved caption: CISSA VENATORIA.
Modern identification
Cissa chinensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Kitta venatoria Gray, the green magpie of Nepal and the eastern Himalaya, is a synonym of the nominate Common Green-Magpie, Cissa chinensis chinensis, so no form.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
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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