Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 13

Black-headed Bunting

Volume V, plate 13 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-headed Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-headed Bunting”

Euspiza melanocephala

Engraved caption: EUSPIZA MELANOCEPHALA.

Modern identification

Black-headed Bunting

Emberiza melanocephala

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Buntings · Emberizidae

Why

Scopoli's Emberiza melanocephala = Black-headed 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)

Who made the plate

J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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

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