Printed on the plate
“Red-necked Mountain Finch”
Montifringilla ruficollis
Engraved caption: MONTIFRINGILLA RUFICOLLAS , W.I.Blanford
Modern identification
Pyrgilauda ruficollis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Sparrows · Passeridae
Why
Blanford's Montifringilla ruficollis (Sikkim-Tibet frontier) = Rufous-necked Snowfinch: rufous neck sides, black malar lines.
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 & W. Hart, del et lithWalter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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