Printed on the plate
“Sparkling Hemipode”
Hemipodius scintillans
Engraved caption: Hemipodius scintillans
Modern identification
Turnix varius
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Buttonquail · Turnicidae
Why
Gould's Hemipodius scintillans, of the Houtman Abrolhos, = the Abrolhos race scintillans of Painted Buttonquail.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); 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.
