Printed on the plate
“Rustic Bunting”
Emberiza rustica
Engraved caption: EMBERIZA RUSTICA, Pal.
Modern identification
Emberiza rustica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Buntings · Emberizidae
Why
Pallas's Emberiza rustica = Rustic Bunting; same name today.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); 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 lithWalter, 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.
