Printed on the plate
“Lesbian Bunting”
Emberiza Lesbia
Engraved caption: Lesbian Bunting Emberiza Lesbia (Gmel.)
Modern identification
Emberiza fucata
- Certain
- Old World Buntings · Emberizidae
Why
The figures are Chestnut-eared Buntings: chestnut ear-coverts, a grey streaked crown and a streaked black necklace on a white throat. Gould had his birds from China, and Temminck from Japan. Sharpe (Cat. Birds BM xii) puts the plate and Gmelin's lesbia in E. fucata.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xii; 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.
