“Bearded Tree-Swift” (Moustached Treeswift) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume I, plate 24

Volume I, plate 24 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Moustached Treeswift (Hemiprocne mystacea) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume I, plate 24, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Bearded Tree-Swift”

Dendrochelidon mystaceus

Engraved caption: DENDROCHELIDON MYSTACEUS.

Modern identification

Moustached Treeswift

Hemiprocne mystacea

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Treeswifts · Hemiprocnidae

Why

Cypselus mystaceus Lesson = Hemiprocne mystacea, Moustached Treeswift; same species, older genus.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF
Avibase

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Hullmandel & Walton printed

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

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