Printed on the plate
“Great Warbler”
Cysticola magna
Engraved caption: Cysticola magna
Modern identification
Cisticola chiniana
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cisticolas and Allies · Cisticolidae
Why
Gould's synonymy makes magna his Cysticola campestris (PZS 1845), the name of the Natal race of Rattling Cisticola, C. c. campestris. Strickland's single specimen had no locality and came in a 'general collection of Australian birds'. Sharpe (Cat. Birds BM vii) lists campestris and this plate under C. chiniana. It is an African bird.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM vii; 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
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