Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 6

White-bellied Minivet

Printed “Cawnpore Pericrocotus”

Volume II, plate 6 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-bellied Minivet (Pericrocotus erythropygius)
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Printed on the plate

“Cawnpore Pericrocotus”

Pericrocotus erythropygius

Engraved caption: PERICROCOTUS ERYTHROPYGIUS.

Modern identification

White-bellied Minivet

Pericrocotus erythropygius

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

Why

Muscicapa erythropygia Jerdon, Latham's Cawnpore Flycatcher = Pericrocotus erythropygius, White-bellied Minivet; 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.

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