Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 3

Gray-chinned Minivet

Printed “Grey-throated Pericrocotus”

Volume II, plate 3 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey-throated Pericrocotus”

Pericrocotus griseogularis

Engraved caption: PERICROCOTUS GRISEIGULARIS, Gould.

Modern identification

Gray-chinned Minivet

Pericrocotus solaris

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cuckooshrikes · Campephagidae

Why

Pericrocotus griseogularis Gould, from Swinhoe's Formosa birds, is P. solaris griseogularis, the Taiwan and S China race of Gray-chinned Minivet.

Sources

List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates