Printed on the plate
“Sombre-coloured Water-Ouzel”
Cinclus sordidus
Engraved caption: CINCLUS SORDIDUS, Gould!
Modern identification
Cinclus cinclus
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Dippers · Cinclidae
Why
Gould's Cinclus sordidus (Tso Moriri, Ladakh) is the dark sordidus morph of the White-throated Dipper's Himalayan race cashmeriensis: the plate and text give a paler brown throat-and-breast bib on a blackish-brown bird, which the uniform Brown Dipper lacks.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate; HBW/BOW on the sordidus morph
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.
