Printed on the plate
“Black-eared Wheatear”
Saxicola aurita
Engraved caption: Black-Eared Wheat Ear Saxicola aurita (Temm.)
Modern identification
Oenanthe hispanica
- Judged
- A variant
- Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae
Why
Temminck's aurita is the pale-throated morph; both males show a narrow mask from the lores below the eye with the forehead pale, not the black band across the forehead of the eastern melanoleuca (Dresser's Smyrna male). Gould gives N Italy, Sardinia and Naples. Western Black-eared Wheatear.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Dresser, B. Eur. ii; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Life and 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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