Printed on the plate
“Black Redstart”
Ruticilla tithys
Engraved caption: RUTICILLA TITHYS.
Modern identification
Phoenicurus ochruros
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Ruticilla tithys (Scopoli) = Black Redstart, Phoenicurus ochruros; Gould's European bird, which his synonymy also gives as Gmelin's Gibraltariensis, is the grey-backed western race P. o. gibraltariensis, not the black-bellied nominate of the Caucasus and Iran.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 96
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.
