Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 70

Diard's Trogon

Volume I, plate 70 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Diard's Trogon (Harpactes diardii)
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Printed on the plate

“Diard's Trogon”

Harpactes Diardi

Engraved caption: HARPACTES DIARDI.

Modern identification

Diard's Trogon

Harpactes diardii

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

Why

Trogon diardii Temminck = Harpactes diardii, Diard's Trogon; Kansas's Black-headed Trogon is a New World bird.

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 lithT. Walter, Imp.

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