Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 1

Green Cochoa

Volume II, plate 1 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Green Cochoa (Cochoa viridis)
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Printed on the plate

“Green Cochoa”

Cochoa viridis

Engraved caption: COCHOA VIRIDIS: Hodgs:

Modern identification

Green Cochoa

Cochoa viridis

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Thrushes and Allies · Turdidae

Why

Cochoa viridis Hodgson (Nepal) = Green Cochoa; same name.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. II); 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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.