Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 71

Fire-capped Tit

Printed “Flame-fronted Flower-pecker”

Volume II, plate 71 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Fire-capped Tit (Cephalopyrus flammiceps)
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Printed on the plate

“Flame-fronted Flower-pecker”

Aigithalus flammiceps

Engraved caption: ÆGITHALUS FLAMMICEPS, Burton.

Modern identification

Fire-capped Tit

Cephalopyrus flammiceps

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

Why

Aegithalus flammiceps Burton = Cephalopyrus flammiceps, Fire-capped Tit; same species, now its own genus.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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