Printed on the plate
“Sepoy Finch”
Haematospiza Sipahi
Engraved caption: HEMATOSPIZA SIPAHI.
Modern identification
Carpodacus sipahi
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Hodgson's Corythus sipahi = Scarlet Finch, now in Carpodacus: scarlet male, olive female with yellow rump.
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 lithHullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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