Printed on the plate
“Blue-tailed Pitta”
Pitta cyanura
Engraved caption: PITTA CYANURA.
Modern identification
Hydrornis guajanus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Gould's Pitta cyanura (Turdus cyanurus Gmel., Myiothera affinis Horsf.; Java) = Javan Banded-Pitta: yellow eyebrow throughout, underparts barred yellow and blue. eBird 2025 splits the Banded Pitta three ways (V.77, V.78, V.83).
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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