Printed on the plate
“Yellow-headed Wagtail”
Budytes citreoloides
Engraved caption: BUDYTES CITREOLOIDES, Hodgs.
Modern identification
Motacilla citreola
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Budytes citreoloides Hodgson is Motacilla citreola calcarata, the black-backed race of Citrine Wagtail that winters in India; the plate's lower male has the black back.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and 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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