Printed on the plate
“Himalayan Pteruthius”
Pteruthius erythropterus
Engraved caption: PTERTTHIUS ERYTHROPTERIS.
Modern identification
Pteruthius aeralatus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis · Vireonidae
Why
Vigors's erythropterus is the Himalayan population of White-browed Shrike-Babbler (Bhutan, Kumaon and Assam in Gould's text). eBird 2025 keeps ripleyi and validirostris in P. aeralatus, so the species stands whichever race Gould's pair was.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. II); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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