Printed on the plate
“Icterine Grosbeak”
Hesperiphona icterioides
Engraved caption: HESPERIPHONA ICTERIOIDES.
Modern identification
Figure upper
Printed “Icterine Grosbeak”
Mycerobas icterioides
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Upper figures: Vigors's Coccothraustes icterioides, the Black-and-yellow Grosbeak, as the adult male (black head, wings, tail and thighs) and the grey, buff-bellied female behind it. The lower front bird is a female Collared Grosbeak (see the lower row).
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text (V.22 and V.23); Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xii; the plate
Figure lower
Printed “Icterine Grosbeak”
Mycerobas affinis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Lower figure: Gould's 'young male', grey on the head and throat with an olive-yellow body, is a female Collared Grosbeak, as he concedes in the V.23 text after Captain Pinwill pointed it out. Sharpe cites V.22 under the Black-and-yellow Grosbeak 'excepting the lower figure, which is H. affinis' female.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text (V.23); Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xii; 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.
