Printed on the plate
“Bengal Pitta”
Pitta bengalensis
Engraved caption: PITTA BENCALENSIS.
Modern identification
Pitta brachyura
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Pitta bengalensis is Linnaeus's Corvus brachyurus, the Indian Pitta itself, from the Himalaya to Ceylon; the species has no races, so no form.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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