“Fire-breasted Myzanthe” (Fire-breasted Flowerpecker) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume II, plate 40

Volume II, plate 40 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Fire-breasted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume II, plate 40, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Fire-breasted Myzanthe”

Myzanthe ignipectus

Engraved caption: MYZANTHE IGNIPECTUS, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Fire-breasted Flowerpecker

Dicaeum ignipectus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Flowerpeckers · Dicaeidae

Why

Myzanthe ignipectus Hodgson (Nepal, Darjeeling) = Dicaeum ignipectus, Fire-breasted Flowerpecker; 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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Hullmandel & Walton printed

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

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library