Printed on the plate
“Alpine Chough”
Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax
Engraved caption: Alpine Chough Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax
Modern identification
Pyrrhocorax graculus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Gould's 'Alpine Chough' (Temminck's use of Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) = Yellow-billed Chough P. graculus; his red-billed Chough is plate 219. Trap: modern P. pyrrhocorax is the Red-billed
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
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