“Chinese Bulbul” (Light-vented Bulbul) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume III, plate 11

Volume III, plate 11 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume III, plate 11, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Chinese Bulbul”

Ixus sinensis

Engraved caption: IZUS SINENSIS .

Modern identification

Light-vented Bulbul

Pycnonotus sinensis

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Bulbuls · Pycnonotidae

Why

Muscicapa sinensis Gmelin = Pycnonotus sinensis, Light-vented Bulbul; same species.

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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF

Who made the plate

J. Gould & H. C. Richter del et lith.Walter, Imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Walter printed

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

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library