Printed on the plate
“Red-throated Pipit”
Anthus cervinus
Engraved caption: ANTHUS CERVINUS, Pall.
Modern identification
Anthus cervinus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Pallas's Motacilla cervina = Red-throated Pipit; 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 & H. C. Richter del et lith.Walter 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.
