Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 57

Banded Broadbill

Printed “Javan Eurylaime”

Volume I, plate 57 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Banded Broadbill (Eurylaimus javanicus)
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Printed on the plate

“Javan Eurylaime”

Eurylaimus Javanicus

Engraved caption: EWRYLAIMYS JAVANICUS , Horsf

Modern identification

Banded Broadbill

Eurylaimus javanicus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Asian and Grauer's Broadbills · Eurylaimidae

Why

Eurylaimus javanicus Horsfield (Java) = Banded Broadbill; same name.

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)

Who made the plate

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

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