Printed on the plate
“Black-and-White Bush-Chat”
Rhodophila melanoleuca
Engraved caption: RHODOPHULA MÈLANOLEUCA, Jerd.
Modern identification
Saxicola jerdoni
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Rhodophila melanoleuca is Jerdon's Bushchat (KU), not in BirdNET; not the Pied Bushchat
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.