Printed on the plate
“Red-breasted Pigeon”
Phlogoenas cruenta
Engraved caption: PHLOCOENAS CIROFNTA.
Modern identification
Gallicolumba luzonica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pigeons and Doves · Columbidae
Why
Gmelin's Columba cruenta (syn. C. luzonica Scopoli) = Luzon Bleeding-heart.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and 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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