Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume III, plate 25

Little Bunting

Printed “Dwarf Bunting”

Volume III, plate 25 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla)
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Printed on the plate

“Dwarf Bunting”

Emberiza pusilla

Engraved caption: EMBERIZA PUSULLA, Pall:

Modern identification

Little Bunting

Emberiza pusilla

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Buntings · Emberizidae

Why

Emberiza pusilla Pall., Gould's Dwarf Bunting = Little Bunting; the plate copies his drawing of the Brighton bird of November 1864.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; pinned in Featherframe (gould_britain.yaml)

Who made the plate

J. Gould & H. C. Richter del et lith.Walter, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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