Printed on the plate
“Black-backed Hemipode”
Hemipodius melanotus
Engraved caption: Hemipodius melanotus
Modern identification
Turnix maculosus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Buttonquail · Turnicidae
Why
Hemipodius melanotus Gould (Moreton Bay) is the E Australian race of Red-backed Buttonquail; Ogilvie-Grant lists the plate under Turnix maculosa. The figures have a chestnut hindneck, buff wing coverts with black spots and black-spotted buff sides.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xxii; 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.