Printed on the plate
“Steere's Pitta”
Pitta Steerii
Engraved caption: PITTA STEEREI.
Modern identification
Pitta steerii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Sharpe's Brachyurus steerii, from Steere's Philippine expedition = Azure-breasted Pitta, Pitta steerii.
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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