Printed on the plate
“Biddulph's Podoces”
Podoces Biddulphi
Engraved caption: PODOCES BIDDULPHL, Hume.
Modern identification
Podoces biddulphi
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Hume's Podoces biddulphi (Maralbashi, Yarkand) = Xinjiang Ground-Jay: the white tail.
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 & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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