Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 28

Fire-tailed Sunbird

Printed “Fiery-tailed Sun-bird”

Volume II, plate 28 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Fire-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga ignicauda)
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Printed on the plate

“Fiery-tailed Sun-bird”

Nectarinia ignicauda

Engraved caption: VECTARIVIA IGNICAUDA.

Modern identification

Fire-tailed Sunbird

Aethopyga ignicauda

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

Why

Cinnyris ignicauda Hodgson (Nepal, Sikkim) = Aethopyga ignicauda, Fire-tailed 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 and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.

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