“Cerulean Pitta” (Giant Pitta) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume V, plate 81

Volume V, plate 81 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Giant Pitta (Hydrornis caeruleus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume V, plate 81, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Cerulean Pitta”

Pitta caerulea

Engraved caption: PITTA CARULEA.

Modern identification

Giant Pitta

Hydrornis caeruleus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Pittas · Pittidae

Why

Raffles's Myiothera caerulea (syn. Temminck's Pitta gigas) = Giant Pitta, Hydrornis caeruleus.

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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF

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.

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