Printed on the plate
“Black-breasted Cincloramphus”
Cincloramphus cantillans
Engraved caption: Cincloramphus cantillans
Modern identification
Cincloramphus cruralis
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Grassbirds and Allies · Locustellidae
Why
Cincloramphus cantillans Gould is the Brown Songlark: his figured Port Phillip birds are males in black-breasted summer dress and a female, smaller than his NSW cruralis.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
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.
