Printed on the plate
“Embroidered Barbet”
Megalaema nuchalis
Engraved caption: MEGALAMA NUCHALIS, Could.
Modern identification
Psilopogon nuchalis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Asian Barbets · Megalaimidae
Why
Gould's own Megalaema nuchalis of Formosa = Taiwan Barbet, Psilopogon nuchalis, split from the Black-browed Barbet.
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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.