Printed on the plate
“Stone-chat, or Furze-chat”
Pratincola rubicola
Engraved caption: PRATINCOLA RUBICOLA.
Modern identification
Saxicola rubicola
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Pratincola rubicola, the Furze-chat = European Stonechat, Saxicola rubicola; the British bird, not the Siberian Stonechat that Gould's synonymy (maura) takes in.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 94
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
