Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 12

Yellow-bellied Whistler

Printed “Philippine-Island Thickhead”

Volume II, plate 12 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Yellow-bellied Whistler (Pachycephala philippinensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Philippine-Island Thickhead”

Hylopterpe philippinensis

Engraved caption: HYLOTERPE PHGIPPINENSIS, Walder

Modern identification

Yellow-bellied Whistler

Pachycephala philippinensis

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Whistlers and Allies · Pachycephalidae

Why

Hyloterpe philippinensis Walden = Pachycephala philippinensis, Yellow-bellied Whistler; same species, now Pachycephala.

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

W. Hart. del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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