Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 18

Lesser Green Leafbird

Printed “All-green Phyllornis”

Volume III, plate 18 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Lesser Green Leafbird (Chloropsis cyanopogon)
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Printed on the plate

“All-green Phyllornis”

Phyllornis cyanopogon

Engraved caption: PHYLLORNIS CYANOPOGON, Temm.

Modern identification

Lesser Green Leafbird

Chloropsis cyanopogon

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

Why

Phyllornis cyanopogon Temminck (Malacca, Singapore) = Chloropsis cyanopogon, Lesser Green Leafbird; 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)

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp

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