Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 136, volume II

Meadow Pipit

Plate 136 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Meadow Pipit”

Anthus pratensis

Engraved caption: Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis (Bechst.)

Modern identification

Meadow Pipit

Anthus pratensis

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae

Why

Anthus pratensis Bechst. = Anthus pratensis (Meadow Pipit); same species

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