Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 6

White-capped Bunting

Printed “Grey-capped Bunting”

Volume V, plate 6 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-capped Bunting (Emberiza stewarti)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey-capped Bunting”

Emberiza caniceps

Engraved caption: EMBERIZA CANICEPS, Gould

Modern identification

White-capped Bunting

Emberiza stewarti

  • Judged
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Buntings · Emberizidae

Why

the plate: white crown, black mask, chestnut breast (KU agrees)

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.

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