Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 1

Dusky Thrush

Printed “Clouded Thrush”

Volume III, plate 1 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Dusky Thrush (Turdus eunomus)
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Printed on the plate

“Clouded Thrush”

Turdus fuscatus

Engraved caption: TURDUS FUSCATUS, Pall.

Modern identification

Dusky Thrush

Turdus eunomus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Thrushes and Allies · Turdidae

Why

Pallas's Turdus fuscatus (syn. eunomus) = Turdus eunomus, Dusky Thrush: black breast band, scaly flanks, rufous wings; Kansas's Great Thrush (T. fuscater) is South American.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. III); 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.

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

The same bird on other plates