Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume I, plate 74

Red-naped Trogon

Printed “Kasumba Trogon”

Volume I, plate 74 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Red-naped Trogon (Harpactes kasumba)
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Printed on the plate

“Kasumba Trogon”

Harpactes Kasumba

Engraved caption: HARPACTES KASUMBA,

Modern identification

Red-naped Trogon

Harpactes kasumba

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

Why

Trogon kasumba Raffles (Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo) = Harpactes kasumba, Red-naped Trogon; Kansas's Black-tailed 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 lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

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