Printed on the plate
“Orpheus Warbler”
Curruca Orphea
Engraved caption: Orpheus Warbler Curruca Orphea (Mihi)
Modern identification
Curruca hortensis
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sylviid Warblers and Allies · Sylviidae
Why
Temminck's Curruca orphea, from Italy and southern France, is the Western Orphean Warbler: every locality Gould gives is western, and both figures have the western bird's brownish back, pinkish-buff flanks and plain buff undertail. Seebohm cites the plate under his western S. orpheus, not his eastern S. jerdoni.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Seebohm, Cat. Birds BM v; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Elizabeth Gould drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
