Printed on the plate
“Bornean Pitta”
Pitta granatina
Engraved caption: PITTA GRANATINA.
Modern identification
Erythropitta granatina
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Temminck's Pitta granatina of Borneo = Garnet Pitta; both figures (one Gould's mooted adoranda) have the red nape, so neither is the Black-crowned Pitta (V.75).
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
