Printed on the plate
“Great Pied Wagtail”
Motacilla Maderaspatensis
Engraved caption: MOTACILLA MADERASPATENSIS, Cme.
Modern identification
Motacilla maderaspatensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Gmelin's Motacilla maderaspatensis = White-browed Wagtail; same name today.
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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.