Printed on the plate
“Pied Stone-Chat”
Dromolea picata
Engraved caption: DROMOLÀA PICATA.
Modern identification
Oenanthe picata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Blyth's Saxicola picata (Gould's birds from Ghazni) = Variable Wheatear, its black-and-white picata form; the brown front figure, which Gould doubted, fits the female.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
H. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter Imp.
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
