Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume II, plate 73

Black-naped Oriole

Printed “Broderip's Oriole”

Volume II, plate 73 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Broderip's Oriole”

Oriolus Broderipi

Engraved caption: ORIOLUS BRODERIPI, Bonap

Modern identification

Black-naped Oriole

Oriolus chinensis

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Orioles · Oriolidae

Why

Oriolus broderipi Bonaparte (Lesser Sundas) = Oriolus chinensis broderipi, the Tenggara race of Black-naped Oriole.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

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

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

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