Printed on the plate
“Rosy Finch”
Erythrospiza incarnata
Engraved caption: HRYTHROSPIZA INCARNATA, Serr.
Modern identification
Bucanetes mongolicus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Severtzov's Erythrospiza incarnata of Turkestan is Swinhoe's Carpodacus mongolicus, the Mongolian Finch, as Severtzov himself agreed; Gould puts mongolicus in his synonymy.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.