Printed on the plate
“Mongolian Rock-Pigeon”
Columba rupestris
Engraved caption: COLUMBA RUPESTRIS, Pall.
Modern identification
Columba rupestris
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pigeons and Doves · Columbidae
Why
Pallas's Columba rupestris = Hill Pigeon.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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