Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 72

Javan Trogon

Printed “Reinwardt's Trogon”

Volume I, plate 72 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Javan Trogon (Apalharpactes reinwardtii)
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Printed on the plate

“Reinwardt's Trogon”

Harpactes Reinwardti

Engraved caption: HARPACTES REINWARDTI.

Modern identification

Javan Trogon

Apalharpactes reinwardtii

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

Why

Trogon reinwardti Temm. (Java) = Apalharpactes reinwardtii, Javan Trogon, adult and young; the Sumatran bird (I.73) is now its own species.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.T. Walter, Imp.

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