Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 62

Silver-breasted Broadbill

Printed “Lunated Eurylaime”

Volume I, plate 62 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Silver-breasted Broadbill (Serilophus lunatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Lunated Eurylaime”

Serilophus lunatus

Engraved caption: SERILOPHUS LUNATUS, Gould

Modern identification

Silver-breasted Broadbill

Serilophus lunatus

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

Why

Gould's own Eurylaimus lunatus (1833, Major Godfrey's Rangoon birds) = Serilophus lunatus, Silver-breasted Broadbill, not the Gray-lored Broadbill split off at I.63.

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

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