Printed on the plate
“Dalmatian Regulus”
Regulus modestus
Engraved caption: Dalmatian Regulus Regulus modestus
Modern identification
Phylloscopus proregulus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Leaf Warblers · Phylloscopidae
Why
Gould's Regulus modestus, from Feldegg's Dalmatian male, is Pallas's Leaf Warbler: the figures have a pale coronal stripe between bright yellow eyebrows, two wing-bars and a pale rump, and Seebohm puts the plate under P. proregulus; the later British 'modestus' were Yellow-browed Warblers.
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
- 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.