Printed on the plate
“Mountain Stone-Chat”
Saxicola montana
Engraved caption: SAXICOLA MONTANA. Gould.
Modern identification
Oenanthe deserti
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Gould's Saxicola montana ('Thibet'), preoccupied and renamed oreophila by Oberholser = Oenanthe deserti oreophila, the high-altitude race of Desert Wheatear: black throat joined to black wing, sandy crown, black tail with white base.
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.
