Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 35

Chestnut-flanked White-eye

Printed “Chestnut-sided Zosterops”

Volume II, plate 35 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Chestnut-flanked White-eye (Zosterops erythropleurus)
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Printed on the plate

“Chestnut-sided Zosterops”

Zosterops erythropleura

Engraved caption: ZOSTEROPS ERYTHROPLEURUS, Swinh.

Modern identification

Chestnut-flanked White-eye

Zosterops erythropleurus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies · Zosteropidae

Why

Zosterops erythropleurus Swinhoe (Shanghai, Amurland) = Chestnut-flanked White-eye; same name.

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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