Printed on the plate
“White-winged Wagtail”
Motacilla lugubris
Engraved caption: White-Winged Wagtail Motacilla lugubris (Pall.)
Modern identification
Motacilla alba
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Pallas's lugubris is the Black-backed Wagtail, now Motacilla alba lugens: Gould's figures have a black eye-stripe, mostly white wings and, in summer, a black back, he gives Japan among its haunts, and Sharpe lists the plate under M. lugens.
Sources
General List (vol. I); crosswalk
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.
