Printed on the plate
“Philippine Racket-tailed Parrot”
Prioniturus spatuliger
Engraved caption: PRIONITURUS SPATULIGER.
Modern identification
Prioniturus discurus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae
Why
Gray's Prioniturus spatuliger from Manila is a synonym of P. discurus: a green racquet-tail with a verditer-blue crown and whitish bill, the Blue-crowned Racquet-tail, the same species as VI.15.
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
