Printed on the plate
“Amethystine Cuckoo”
Chalcites xanthorhynchus
Engraved caption: CHALCITES XANTHORHYNCHUS.
Modern identification
Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cuckoos · Cuculidae
Why
Horsfield's Cuculus xanthorhynchus of Java = Violet Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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