Printed on the plate
“Indian Furze-Chat”
Pratincola Indica
Engraved caption: PRATINCOLA INDICA, Blyth.
Modern identification
Saxicola maurus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Blyth's Pratincola indica (syn. Hodgson's saturatior) = Saxicola maurus indicus, the Himalayan race of Siberian Stonechat, which eBird splits from the European and African Stonechats.
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 & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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