Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 60

Black-and-red Broadbill

Printed “Allied Eurylaime”

Volume I, plate 60 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-and-red Broadbill (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos)
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Printed on the plate

“Allied Eurylaime”

Cymbirhynchus affinis

Engraved caption: CYMBIRHYNCHUS AFFINIS, Blyth.

Modern identification

Black-and-red Broadbill

Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Asian and Grauer's Broadbills · Eurylaimidae

Why

Cymbirhynchus affinis Blyth, from Arakan, is C. macrorhynchos affinis, the Irrawaddy race of Black-and-red Broadbill (its own eBird group).

Sources

List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue

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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