Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 31

Desert Wheatear

Printed “Black-throated Stone-Chat”

Volume IV, plate 31 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-throated Stone-Chat”

Saxicola atrogularis

Engraved caption: SAXICOLA ATROGULARIS, BUTh

Modern identification

Desert Wheatear

Oenanthe deserti

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae

Why

Saxicola atrogularis Blyth (India, Sind, Afghanistan; black axillaries) is the eastern race of Desert Wheatear, O. d. atrogularis. Gould separated it from Rüppell's deserti only by the black underwing.

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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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