Printed on the plate
“Bonaparte's Parrakeet”
Paleornis Luciani
Engraved caption: PALÆORNIS LUCIANI, J.Ver
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Bonaparte's Parakeet.
Modern identification
Psittacula longicauda
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae
Why
Verreaux's Palaeornis luciani, drawn from a ZSL cage bird (green crown, brick-red cheeks, black moustache, red upper mandible), is a Long-tailed Parakeet; Salvadori puts luciani and this plate in Fraser's modesta, now P. longicauda modesta of Enggano.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xx; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
