Printed on the plate
“Common Quail”
Coturnix communis
Engraved caption: COTORNX COMMONIS.
Modern identification
Coturnix coturnix
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Coturnix communis Bonn. = Tetrao coturnix Linn., Common Quail; same species.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 263
Who made the plate
J. Gould & 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.
