Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 64, volume II

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Plate 64 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-breasted Flycatcher”

Muscicapa parva

Engraved caption: Red-Breasted Fly-Catcher Muscicapa parva (Bechst.)

Modern identification

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Ficedula parva

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae

Why

Red-breasted Flycatcher; Taiga Flycatcher (F. albicilla) split, but that is the Asian form

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