Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 14

Red-headed Bunting

Volume V, plate 14 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Red-headed Bunting (Emberiza bruniceps)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-headed Bunting”

Euspiza luteola

Engraved caption: EUSPIZA LUTEOLA.

Modern identification

Red-headed Bunting

Emberiza bruniceps

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

Why

Sparrman's Emberiza luteola (syn. Eversmann's icterica), the red-headed bunting of India = Red-headed Bunting, Emberiza bruniceps.

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.

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