Printed on the plate
“Burmese Parrakeet”
Paleornis cyanocephala
Engraved caption: PALÆORMIS CYANOCEPHALA.
Modern identification
Psittacula roseata
- 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 'cyanocephala', the Burmese bird of E Bengal, Assam, Burma and China (Hume's bengalensis), is the Blossom-headed Parakeet. The plate agrees: pink head with lavender nape, no emerald ring under the collar, yellowish tail tip, maroon wing-spot in the grey-headed females.
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
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