Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 27

Black-throated Sunbird

Printed “Black-breasted Sun-bird”

Volume II, plate 27 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-throated Sunbird (Aethopyga saturata)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-breasted Sun-bird”

Nectarinia saturata

Engraved caption: NECTARINIA SATURATA.

Modern identification

Black-throated Sunbird

Aethopyga saturata

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Sunbirds and Spiderhunters · Nectariniidae

Why

Cinnyris saturata Hodgson = Aethopyga saturata, Black-throated Sunbird; 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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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