“Canton Pericrocotus” (Brown-rumped Minivet) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume II, plate 4

Volume II, plate 4 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Brown-rumped Minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume II, plate 4, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Canton Pericrocotus”

Pericrocotus cantonensis

Engraved caption: PERICOCOTIS CANTONENSIS. Swinh.

Modern identification

Brown-rumped Minivet

Pericrocotus cantonensis

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Cuckooshrikes · Campephagidae

Why

Pericrocotus cantonensis Swinhoe (Canton) = Brown-rumped Minivet; 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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF

Who made the plate

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

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Walter printed

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

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library