Printed on the plate
“Natterer's Warbler”
Sylvia Nattereri
Engraved caption: Natterer's Warbler Sylvia Nattereri (Temm.)
Modern identification
Phylloscopus bonelli
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Leaf Warblers · Phylloscopidae
Why
Temminck's Sylvia nattereri, named for Natterer's birds from Algeciras in southern Spain, is the Western Bonelli's Warbler: every range Gould gives (Spain, Provence, Switzerland, Tyrol, Italy) is western, and the figure has the western bird's yellow-olive edges to the wings, rump and tail.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Seebohm, Cat. Birds BM v; Dresser, B. Eur. ii; 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
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