Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 5

Gray-chinned Minivet

Printed “Yellow-throated Pericrocotus”

Volume II, plate 5 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-throated Pericrocotus”

Pericrocotus solaris

Engraved caption: PERICROCOTUS SOLARIS:Blyh.

Modern identification

Gray-chinned Minivet

Pericrocotus solaris

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cuckooshrikes · Campephagidae

Why

Pericrocotus solaris Blyth = Gray-chinned Minivet, nominate race.

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 lithHullmandel & Walton Imp.

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

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