Printed on the plate
“Blue-cheeked Parrakeet”
Platycercus cyanogenys
Engraved caption: Platycercus cyanogenys
Modern identification
Platycercus adscitus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae
Why
cyanogenys Gould (one Cape York skin; pale sulphur head, blue cheeks, yellowish body) = the nominate Pale-headed Rosella.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. Supp); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; 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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