Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 58

Gray-crested Tit

Printed “Grey Tit”

Volume II, plate 58 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-crested Tit (Lophophanes dichrous)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey Tit”

Parus dichrous

Engraved caption: PARUS DICROUS, Hodgs.

The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Gray Tit.

Modern identification

Gray-crested Tit

Lophophanes dichrous

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

Why

Parus dichrous Hodgson = Lophophanes dichrous, Gray-crested 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.