Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 264, volume IV

Small Buttonquail

Printed “Andalusian Turnix”

Plate 264 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Small Buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus)
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Printed on the plate

“Andalusian Turnix”

Hemipodius tachydromus

Engraved caption: Andalusian Turnix Hemipodius tachydromus (Temm.)

Modern identification

Small Buttonquail

Turnix sylvaticus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Buttonquail · Turnicidae

Why

Andalusian Hemipode = Small Buttonquail

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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates