Printed on the plate
“Chiff-chaff”
Phyllopneuste rufa
Engraved caption: PHYLLOPNEUSTE RUFA.
Modern identification
Phylloscopus collybita
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Leaf Warblers · Phylloscopidae
Why
Phyllopneuste rufa = Common Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita. The British authors' 'hippolais' in Gould's synonymy is this bird, not the Icterine Warbler (II.71).
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 131
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lithWalter & 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.
