Printed on the plate
“(no English name printed)”
Phyllopneuste tristis
Engraved caption: PYLLOPNEOSTE TRISTIS.
Modern identification
Phylloscopus collybita
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Leaf Warblers · Phylloscopidae
Why
Phylloscopus tristis Blyth, the brown chiffchaff without yellow that winters in India, is the Siberian Chiffchaff, which eBird 2025 keeps in Common Chiffchaff as P. c. tristis.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del et lithWalter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
