Printed on the plate
“Elphinstone's Wood-Pigeon”
Palumbus Elphinstonei
Engraved caption: PALUMBUS ELPHINSTONEI.
Modern identification
Columba elphinstonii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pigeons and Doves · Columbidae
Why
Sykes's Elphinstone's Pigeon of the Nilgiris and Western Ghats = Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon; text and figure are the Indian bird, not the Ceylon birds Gould mentions (now Sri Lanka Wood-Pigeon).
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.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.