Printed on the plate
“Red-mantled Grosbeak”
Carpodacus rhodochlamys
Engraved caption: CARPODACUS RHODOCHLAMYS.
Modern identification
Carpodacus grandis
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Gould's male is Bonaparte and Schlegel's Carpodacus sophia, a Himalayan bird he lent them, and his description is a translation of theirs: Blyth's Rosefinch, not Brandt's Altai bird. The upper male's dark crown sharply set off from a pale pink brow, and the female's pale, finely streaked brow, are Blyth's Rosefinch marks, and Sharpe lists the plate under Carpodacus grandis as 'rhodochlamys (nec Brandt)'.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Bonaparte & Schlegel, Monogr. Loxiens (1850); Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xii; Ayé & Schweizer, Dutch Birding 28 (2006); 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
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