Printed on the plate
“Grey-capped Stone-Chat”
Saxicola capistrata
Engraved caption: SAXICOLA CAPISTRATA,
Modern identification
Oenanthe picata
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Saxicola capistrata Gould (Sind in winter; grey cap, black throat and back) is the capistrata morph of Variable Wheatear, which eBird lists as the form 'Variable Wheatear (Gould's)'. Not the Pied Wheatear the survey read.
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.
