Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 52

Himalayan Black-lored Tit

Printed “Yellow-cheeked Tit”

Volume II, plate 52 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Himalayan Black-lored Tit (Machlolophus xanthogenys)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-cheeked Tit”

Parus xanthogenys

Engraved caption: PARTS XANTHOGENYS, Vig.

The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Yellow-cheeked Tit.

Modern identification

Himalayan Black-lored Tit

Machlolophus xanthogenys

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae

Why

Parus xanthogenys Vigors (NW Himalaya) = Machlolophus xanthogenys, Himalayan Black-lored Tit; 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)

Who made the plate

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

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