Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 67

Scarlet-rumped Trogon

Printed “Duvaucel's Trogon”

Volume I, plate 67 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Scarlet-rumped Trogon (Harpactes duvaucelii)
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Printed on the plate

“Duvaucel's Trogon”

Harpactes Duvauceli

Engraved caption: HARPACTES DUVAUCELI.

Modern identification

Scarlet-rumped Trogon

Harpactes duvaucelii

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Trogons · Trogonidae

Why

Trogon duvaucelii Temminck = Harpactes duvaucelii, Scarlet-rumped Trogon; Kansas's Masked Trogon is a New World bird of a like epithet.

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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