Printed on the plate
“Grey-capped Wagtail”
Budytes cinereocapilla
Engraved caption: BODYTES CINEREOCADIITA
Modern identification
Motacilla flava
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Budytes cinereocapilla Savi = the Ashy-headed Wagtail, M. flava cinereocapilla, a race of Western Yellow Wagtail. Gould's dark Norwegian birds, perhaps the black-headed figure, would be the Grey-headed race thunbergi; every figure is M. flava.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
