Printed on the plate
“Red-rumped Mountain Finch”
Montifringilla haematopygia
Engraved caption: MONTIFRINCILLA HEMATOPYCIA: GuZd
Modern identification
Leucosticte brandti
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Gould's Montifringilla haematopygia (Tibet, Lord Gifford) = Leucosticte brandti haematopygia, a race of Black-headed Mountain Finch: blackish face, grey-brown body, red 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 lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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