Printed on the plate
“Dingy Podoces”
Podoces humilis
Engraved caption: PODOCES HUMILIS, Humc.
Modern identification
Pseudopodoces humilis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae
Why
Hume's Podoces humilis = Ground Tit, Pseudopodoces humilis, a tit rather than a ground-jay.
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 & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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