Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 59

Black-and-red Broadbill

Printed “Great-billed Eurylaime”

Volume I, plate 59 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-and-red Broadbill (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos)
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Printed on the plate

“Great-billed Eurylaime”

Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchus

Engraved caption: CYMBIRHYNCHUS MACRORHYNCHUS .

Modern identification

Black-and-red Broadbill

Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos

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

Why

Todus macrorhynchos Gmelin (Malacca, Sumatra) = Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos, Black-and-red Broadbill, nominate race.

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 lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp

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

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