Printed on the plate
“Many-spotted Nutcracker”
Nucifraga multipunctata
Engraved caption: VUCIFRACA MUTTIPUNCTATA: Could.
Modern identification
Nucifraga multipunctata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Gould's Nucifraga multipunctata (Simla, Afghanistan) = Kashmir Nutcracker, a species in eBird 2025: large white spots all over, long white-tipped tail. BirdNET lumps it in Eurasian Nutcracker.
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.