Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 30

Vigors's Sunbird

Printed “Vigors' Sun-bird”

Volume II, plate 30 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Vigors's Sunbird (Aethopyga vigorsii)
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Printed on the plate

“Vigors' Sun-bird”

Nectarinia Vigorsii

Engraved caption: VECTARINIA VICORSH: Sykes.

Modern identification

Vigors's Sunbird

Aethopyga vigorsii

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

Why

Cinnyris vigorsii Sykes, of the Western Ghats = Aethopyga vigorsii, Vigors's Sunbird, split from the Crimson Sunbird.

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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