Printed on the plate
“Bootan Magpie”
Pica Bottanensis
Engraved caption: PICA BOTTANENSIS, Deessert.
Modern identification
Pica bottanensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Delessert's Pica bottanensis of Bhutan = Black-rumped Magpie, which eBird splits from the Eurasian 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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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