Printed on the plate
“Powerful Cuckoo”
Cuculus strenuus
Engraved caption: CUCULUS STRENUUS, Gould.
Modern identification
Hierococcyx sparverioides
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cuckoos · Cuculidae
Why
Cuculus strenuus Gould, a very large hawk-cuckoo from Manila (wing 9 1/4 in.), is the Large Hawk-Cuckoo, a winter visitor there; not a race of it, so no form.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lithHullmandel & 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.