Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 15

Black-headed Shrike-Babbler

Printed “Rufous-bellied Pteruthius”

Volume II, plate 15 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-headed Shrike-Babbler (Pteruthius rufiventer)
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Printed on the plate

“Rufous-bellied Pteruthius”

Pteruthius rufiventer

Engraved caption: PTERUTHUS RUFIVENTER, Blyth.

Modern identification

Black-headed Shrike-Babbler

Pteruthius rufiventer

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis · Vireonidae

Why

Pteruthius rufiventer Blyth (Nepal, Bhutan) = Black-headed Shrike-Babbler; 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.

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