Printed on the plate
“Adams's Mountain Finch”
Montifringilla Adamsii
Engraved caption: MONTIFRINGILLA ADAMSI. Moore.
Modern identification
Montifringilla adamsi
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Sparrows · Passeridae
Why
Moore's Montifringilla adamsi (Ladakh) = Black-winged Snowfinch, once called Tibetan Snowfinch; the yellow-billed bird is Gould's juvenile from Kullu.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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
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