“Great Pericrocotus” (Scarlet Minivet) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume II, plate 7

Volume II, plate 7 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Scarlet Minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume II, plate 7, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Great Pericrocotus”

Pericrocotus speciosus

Engraved caption: PERICROCOTUS SPECIOSUS,

Modern identification

Scarlet Minivet

Pericrocotus speciosus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Cuckooshrikes · Campephagidae

Why

Turdus speciosus Latham (syn. Vigors's princeps, Himalaya) = Pericrocotus speciosus, Scarlet Minivet, not the Orange Minivet of S India and Ceylon (II.8).

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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF

Who made the plate

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

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Hullmandel & Walton printed

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

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