Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 61

Dusky Broadbill

Printed “Great Eurylaime”

Volume I, plate 61 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Dusky Broadbill (Corydon sumatranus)
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Printed on the plate

“Great Eurylaime”

Corydon Sumatranus

Engraved caption: CORYDON SUMATRANUS.

Modern identification

Dusky Broadbill

Corydon sumatranus

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

Why

Coracias sumatranus Raffles = Corydon sumatranus, Dusky Broadbill; same species.

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.