Printed on the plate
“Great Racket-tailed Parrot”
Prioniturus flavicans
Engraved caption: PRIONITURUS FLAVICANS, Cass.
Modern identification
Prioniturus flavicans
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae
Why
Cassin's Prioniturus flavicans of north Celebes = Yellow-breasted Racquet-tail.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; 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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