Printed on the plate
“White-tailed Stone-Chat”
Dromolea opistholeuca
Engraved caption: DROMOLÆA OPISTHOLEUCA.
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: White-tailed Stonechat.
Modern identification
Oenanthe picata
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Strickland's Saxicola opistholeuca is the all-black opistholeuca morph of the Variable Wheatear, white rump and tail base; Gould's synonym S. leucura Blyth is this bird, not IV.33.
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
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, 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.
