Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 31

Green-tailed Sunbird

Printed “Nepaulese Sun-bird”

Volume II, plate 31 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Green-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Nepaulese Sun-bird”

Nectarinia Nipalensis

Engraved caption: NECTARINIA NIPALENSIS.

Modern identification

Green-tailed Sunbird

Aethopyga nipalensis

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

Why

Cinnyris nipalensis Hodgson = Aethopyga nipalensis, Green-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.

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