Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 63

Gray-lored Broadbill

Printed “Red-backed EEurylaime”

Volume I, plate 63 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-lored Broadbill (Serilophus rubropygius)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-backed EEurylaime”

Serilophus rubropygius

Engraved caption: SERILOPHUS RUBROPYGUS

Modern identification

Gray-lored Broadbill

Serilophus rubropygius

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

Why

Serilophus rubropygius = Gray-lored Broadbill; eBird 2025 splits it from Silver-breasted Broadbill; BirdNET lumps in Silver-breasted Broadbill

Sources

List of Plates (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue

Who made the plate

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

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