“Elegant Bunting” (Yellow-throated Bunting) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume V, plate 12

Volume V, plate 12 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Yellow-throated Bunting (Emberiza elegans) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume V, plate 12, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Elegant Bunting”

Euspiza elegans

Engraved caption: EUSPIZA ELEGANS, Temm.

Modern identification

Yellow-throated Bunting

Emberiza elegans

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Old World Buntings · Emberizidae

Why

Temminck's Emberiza elegans = Yellow-throated Bunting; same species, back in Emberiza.

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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
Walter printed

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library