Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 18

Japanese Grosbeak

Printed “Masked Grosbeak”

Volume V, plate 18 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Japanese Grosbeak (Eophona personata)
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Printed on the plate

“Masked Grosbeak”

Eophona personata

Engraved caption: FOPHONA PERSONATA.

Modern identification

Japanese Grosbeak

Eophona personata

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae

Why

Temminck and Schlegel's Coccothraustes personatus of Japan = Japanese Grosbeak, Eophona personata.

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 and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp

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