Printed on the plate
“Indian Tree-Pipit”
Pipastes agilis
Engraved caption: PIPASTES AGILIS.
Modern identification
Anthus hodgsoni
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Gould's Pipastes agilis is Jerdon's Indian Tree-Pipit (syn. Hodgson's Anthus maculatus), greener and less streaked above than the Tree Pipit and ranging to China and Japan: the Olive-backed Pipit.
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.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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