Printed on the plate
“Elliot's Pitta”
Pitta Ellioti
Engraved caption: PITTA ELLIOTI, Oust.
Modern identification
Hydrornis elliotii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Oustalet's Pitta ellioti of Cochinchina = Bar-bellied Pitta, Hydrornis elliotii.
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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