Printed on the plate
“Blossom-headed Parrakeet”
Paleornis rosa
Engraved caption: PALEORNIS ROSA.
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Blossom-headed Parakeet.
Modern identification
Psittacula cyanocephala
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae
Why
Gould's text says Blyth's names for VI.2 and VI.3 are transposed: this 'rosa' is the Indian and Ceylon bird (Hume's purpureus), the Plum-headed Parakeet. The plate agrees: emerald ring under the black collar, white tail tip, grey-headed female with a yellow collar and no wing-spot.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.