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Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume III, plate 50

Twite

Printed “Twite, or Mountain-Linnet”

Volume III, plate 50 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Twite (Linaria flavirostris) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume III, plate 50, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Twite, or Mountain-Linnet”

Linota montium

Engraved caption: TINOTA MONTIUM.

Modern identification

Linaria flavirostris

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae

Why

Linota montium, the Mountain-Linnet = Twite, Linaria flavirostris; same species, older name.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 192

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.

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The same bird on other plates

Europe, 1832–37Plate 192“Mountain Linnet, or Twite”