Printed on the plate
“Black-tailed Grosbeak”
Eophona melanura
Engraved caption: FOPHONA MELANURA.
Modern identification
Eophona migratoria
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Gmelin's Loxia melanura (Sonnerat's Chinese grosbeak), which Gould gives from Shanghai, Canton and Chusan = Yellow-billed Grosbeak, now under Hartert's name Eophona migratoria.
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.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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