Printed on the plate
“Azure-winged Magpie”
Pica cyanea
Engraved caption: Azure Winged Magpie Pica cyanea (Wagler)
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Azure-winged Magpie.
Modern identification
Cyanopica cooki
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Gould drew the plate from Captain S. E. Cook's specimen from near Madrid, so it is the Iberian Magpie, which Bonaparte later named cooki after him. The central tail feathers have only an obscure pale tip, not the Asian bird's broad white one; Sharpe and Dresser cite the plate under C. cooki.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM iii; Dresser, B. Eur. iv; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Life & 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.