Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 17

Green Shrike-Babbler

Printed “Yellow-green Allotrius”

Volume II, plate 17 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Green Shrike-Babbler (Pteruthius xanthochlorus)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-green Allotrius”

Allotrius xanthochloris

Engraved caption: ALLOTRIUS XANTHOCHLORIS.

Modern identification

Green Shrike-Babbler

Pteruthius xanthochlorus

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

Why

Pteruthius xanthochlorus Hodgson (Nepal, Bhutan) = Green Shrike-Babbler; same species.

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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