Printed on the plate
“Cinereous Bunting”
Emberiza cinerea
Engraved caption: EMBERIZA CINEREA, Strickl.
Modern identification
Emberiza cineracea
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Buntings · Emberizidae
Why
Strickland's Emberiza cinerea, from Smyrna = Cinereous Bunting, now Emberiza cineracea; Smyrna birds are the grey-bellied nominate race.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.