Printed on the plate
“Garden Warbler”
Curruca hortensis
Engraved caption: CORRUCA HORTENSIS.
Modern identification
Sylvia borin
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sylviid Warblers and Allies · Sylviidae
Why
Gould's Curruca hortensis is the Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin: plain brown, no cap. The same binomial now names the Western Orphean Warbler (II.61).
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 121; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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