Printed on the plate
“Desert Whitethroat”
Sylvia nana
Engraved caption: SYLVIA NAVA
Modern identification
Curruca nana
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sylviid Warblers and Allies · Sylviidae
Why
Hemprich & Ehrenberg's Curruca nana (syn. aralensis, delicatula) = Asian Desert Warbler; Gould's text is Blanford's Persian and Baluch birds, east of the African Desert Warbler since split.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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