Printed on the plate
“Mongolian Ruby-throat”
Calliope tschebaiewi
Engraved caption: CALLIOPE TSCHEBAIEWI, Priev.
Modern identification
Calliope tschebaiewi
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Przevalski's Calliope tschebaiewi, from his Mongolian and Tangut travels, with the larger ruby throat and white cheek stripe Gould notes = Chinese Rubythroat, a species in eBird 2025.
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 lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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