Printed on the plate
“Russet Wheatear”
Saxicola stapazina
Engraved caption: Russet Wheatear Saxicola Stapazina (Temm.)
Modern identification
Oenanthe hispanica
- Judged
- A variant
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Temminck's stapazina is the black-throated morph of the western bird; Dresser cites the plate under his S. rufa (western black-throated). The male's black bib is small and well clear of the wings and the forehead is pale, not the large bib and black-fronted mask of the eastern melanoleuca. Gould's range (S Italy, Dalmatia, Greece) is Temminck's, not the specimens'.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Dresser, B. Eur. ii; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn on Stone from Life 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.
