Printed on the plate
“Blue Pitta”
Pitta cyanea
Engraved caption: PITTA CYANEA: Blyth.
Modern identification
Hydrornis cyaneus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Blyth's Pitta cyanea = Blue Pitta, Hydrornis cyaneus.
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 and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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