Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 17

Jerdon's Leafbird

Printed “Jerdon's Phyllornis”

Volume III, plate 17 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Jerdon's Leafbird (Chloropsis jerdoni)
Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Jerdon's Phyllornis”

Phyllornis Jerdoni

Engraved caption: PHYLLORNIS JERDONI®

Modern identification

Jerdon's Leafbird

Chloropsis jerdoni

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Leafbirds · Chloropseidae

Why

Phyllornis jerdoni Blyth = Chloropsis jerdoni, Jerdon's Leafbird, split from the Blue-winged Leafbird that Kansas names.

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.