Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 19

Amur Paradise-Flycatcher

Printed “Ince's Paradise Flycatcher”

Volume II, plate 19 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Amur Paradise-Flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei)
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Printed on the plate

“Ince's Paradise Flycatcher”

Muscipeta Incei

Engraved caption: MUSCIPETA INCEI, Gould.

Modern identification

Amur Paradise-Flycatcher

Terpsiphone incei

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Monarch Flycatchers · Monarchidae

Why

Gould's own Muscipeta incei, from Shanghai = Terpsiphone incei, Amur Paradise-Flycatcher, split from the Indian.

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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