Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 44

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch

Printed “Cinnamon-bellied Nuthatch”

Volume II, plate 44 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (Sitta cinnamoventris)
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Printed on the plate

“Cinnamon-bellied Nuthatch”

Sitta cinnamomeoventris

Engraved caption: SITTA CINNAMOVENTRIS: Blyth.

Modern identification

Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch

Sitta cinnamoventris

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Nuthatches · Sittidae

Why

Sitta cinnamoventris Blyth, of the SE Himalaya, which Gould keeps apart from Franklin's castaneoventris (II.45) = Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch as eBird now restricts it.

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.

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