Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 64

Long-tailed Broadbill

Printed “Dalhousie's Eurylaime”

Volume I, plate 64 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Long-tailed Broadbill (Psarisomus dalhousiae)
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Printed on the plate

“Dalhousie's Eurylaime”

Psarisoinus Dalhousie

Engraved caption: PSARISOMUS DALHOUSIE.

Modern identification

Long-tailed Broadbill

Psarisomus dalhousiae

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

Why

Eurylaimus dalhousiae Jameson = Psarisomus dalhousiae, Long-tailed 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

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