Printed on the plate
“Siberian Ruby-throat”
Calliope camtschatkensis
Engraved caption: CALLIOPE CAMTCHATKENSIS.
Modern identification
Calliope calliope
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Gould's Calliope camtschatkensis (Pallas's Motacilla calliope heads his synonymy), figured from Seebohm's Yenisei birds = Siberian Rubythroat, nominate race.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart, del et lithWalter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
