Printed on the plate
“Vigors’ Pitta”
Pitta Vigorsii
Engraved caption: Pitta Vigorsii
Modern identification
Pitta vigorsii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pittas · Pittidae
Why
Pitta vigorsii Gould, from one Linnean Society skin with no locality, is the type of the Banda Sea Pitta. eBird 2025 splits it from Elegant Pitta. The figure has the white throat and the thin grey-green stripe from the nostrils round the crown.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Elizabeth Gould drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.