Printed on the plate
“Coal-black Redstart”
Ruticilla erythroprocta
Engraved caption: RUTICILLA ERYTHROPROCTA, Gould.
Modern identification
Phoenicurus ochruros
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Gould's Ruticilla erythroprocta, from a male sent from Erzurum, is a synonym of the nominate Black Redstart, Phoenicurus ochruros ochruros of the Caucasus, NE Turkey and N Iran: black body, grey crown, rufous lower belly and tail.
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.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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