Printed on the plate
“Melodious Warbler”
Ficedula hypolais
Engraved caption: FICEDULA HYPOLAIS,
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Melodious Warbler.
Modern identification
Hippolais icterina
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Reed Warblers and Allies · Acrocephalidae
Why
Ficedula hypolais (Motacilla hippolais Linn.) = Icterine Warbler, Hippolais icterina. Gould's English 'Melodious Warbler' is today's name of H. polyglotta, which he lists apart; his birds (Holland; Kent, 1848; Ireland, 1856) and the plate's long primary projection are Icterine.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 133; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter del. et lithWalter. 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.
