Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 112, volume II

Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin

Printed “Rufous Sedge Warbler”

Plate 112 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin (Cercotrichas galactotes)
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Printed on the plate

“Rufous Sedge Warbler”

Salicaria galactotes

Engraved caption: Rufous Sedge Warbler Salicaria galactotes (Mihi)

Modern identification

Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin

Cercotrichas galactotes

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae

Why

Sylvia galactotes Temm. = Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (Rufous Bush Chat); Gould placed it with the reed warblers

Sources

General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

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

The same bird on other plates