“Little Pericrocotus” (Small Minivet) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume II, plate 9

Volume II, plate 9 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Small Minivet (Pericrocotus cinnamomeus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume II, plate 9, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Little Pericrocotus”

Pericrocotus peregrinus

Engraved caption: PERICROCOTUS PEREGRINIS.

Modern identification

Small Minivet

Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Cuckooshrikes · Campephagidae

Why

Gould's Pericrocotus peregrinus, whose synonymy includes Linnaeus's Motacilla cinnamomea, = Pericrocotus cinnamomeus, Small Minivet, taken as the whole species (India and Ceylon), so no form.

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
Avibase

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lithHullmandel & 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.

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library