Printed on the plate
“Lesser Florikin”
Sypheotides auritus
Engraved caption: SYPHEOTIDES AURITUS.
Modern identification
Sypheotides indicus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Bustards · Otididae
Why
Latham's Otis aurita = Lesser Florican, Sypheotides indicus.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); 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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