Printed on the plate
“Turkestan Sparrow”
Passer ammodendri
Engraved caption: PASSER AMMODENDRI, Severzow
Modern identification
Passer ammodendri
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Sparrows · Passeridae
Why
Severtzov's Passer ammodendri of Turkestan = Saxaul Sparrow; 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 lith.Walter, 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.