Printed on the plate
“Formosan Pitta”
Pitta oreas
Engraved caption: PITTA OREAS, Swinh.
Modern identification
Pitta nympha
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Swinhoe's Pitta oreas of Formosa, without the white underwing patch of the Indian bird = Fairy Pitta, Pitta nympha.
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 & 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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