Printed on the plate
“Rock or Shore Pipit”
Anthus aquaticus
Engraved caption: Rock Or Shore Pipit Anthus aquaticus (Bechst.)
Modern identification
Anthus petrosus
- Judged
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Gould's text and figure are the British Rock Pipit: a coastal, resident, dusky olive bird with heavy dark blotches below, on a shore rock. He notes that the continental birds' vinous breast (the Water Pipit) is missing in British examples. Dresser cites the plate under Anthus obscurus. Bechstein's aquaticus is the Water Pipit's name.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Dresser, B. Eur. iii; 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.
