Printed on the plate
“Nightingale”
Luscinia philomela
Engraved caption: LUSCINIA PHULOMELA.
Modern identification
Luscinia megarhynchos
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Gould's Luscinia philomela (Bonaparte's usage, over Linnaeus's Motacilla luscinia) is the English Nightingale, today's Common Nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos. Both Latin names now belong to the Thrush Nightingale, but Gould's range (Kent, Surrey, never Cornwall, rarely north of Yorkshire) and the plate's rufous tail and plain breast are the Common.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 116
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.
