Printed on the plate
“Yellow Wagtail”
Motacilla flava
Engraved caption: Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava (Ray)
Modern identification
Motacilla flava
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Wagtails and Pipits · Motacillidae
Why
Gould's Motacilla flava 'of Ray' is the British Yellow Wagtail, M. f. flavissima: the male has an olive-green head with a yellow eyebrow, and Gould sets it against the Continental bird he names M. neglecta (plate 146).
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk
Who made the plate
Drawn from Life & 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.
