Printed on the plate
“Nepaulese Bullfinch”
Pyrrhula Nipalensis
Engraved caption: PYRRHULA NIPALENSIS, #odys.
Modern identification
Pyrrhula nipalensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Hodgson's Pyrrhula nipalensis = Brown Bullfinch; same name today.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
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.