Printed on the plate
“Western Mosque-Swallow”
Cecropis rufula
Engraved caption: CECROPIS RUFULA.
Modern identification
Cecropis rufula
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Swallows · Hirundinidae
Why
Gould's Cecropis rufula is the European Red-rumped Swallow (Greece, Asia Minor; pale, almost unstreaked breast), a species in eBird 2025's three-way split, not the Eastern C. daurica.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lithWalter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
