Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 37

Orange-bellied Flowerpecker

Printed “Yellow-throated Diceum”

Volume II, plate 37 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-throated Diceum”

Diceum dorsale

Engraved caption: DICÆUM DORSALE, Sharpe.

Modern identification

Orange-bellied Flowerpecker

Dicaeum trigonostigma

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Flowerpeckers · Dicaeidae

Why

Dicaeum dorsale Sharpe (Panay) = Dicaeum trigonostigma dorsale, a Philippine race of Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (eBird's Orange-breasted group): yellow throat, orange-red mantle.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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