Printed on the plate
“White-breasted Water-hen”
Gallinula phoenicura
Engraved caption: GALLINULA PICENICURA .
Modern identification
Amaurornis phoenicurus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae
Why
Pennant's Rallus phoenicurus = White-breasted Waterhen, Amaurornis phoenicurus.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); 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 & 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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