Printed on the plate
“Yellow Wagtail”
Budytes Rayi
Engraved caption: BUDYTES RAYI.
Modern identification
Motacilla flava
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Budytes rayi = the British Yellow Wagtail, M. flava flavissima, a race of Western Yellow Wagtail.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 145
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
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