Printed on the plate
“Brown-naped Mountain Finch”
Montifringilla brunneinucha
Engraved caption: MONTIFRUGILLA BRUNNEINUCHA,
Modern identification
Leucosticte arctoa
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
Why
Brandt's Fringilla brunneonucha (Kamchatka, Kuriles) = Leucosticte arctoa brunneonucha, the brown-naped race of Asian Rosy-Finch: chestnut nape, pink belly and 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
