Printed on the plate
“Northern Mountain Finch”
Montifringilla arctoa
Engraved caption: MONTIFRINGILLA ARCTOA.
Modern identification
Leucosticte arctoa
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Pallas's Passer arctous = Asian Rosy-Finch, the nominate silver-winged form: dark body, buff nape, silvery wings and tail.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
