Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 33

Black-necklaced Scimitar-Babbler

Printed “Red-kneed Pomatorhinus”

Volume III, plate 33 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-necklaced Scimitar-Babbler (Erythrogenys erythrocnemis)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-kneed Pomatorhinus”

Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis

Engraved caption: POMATORHINUS ERYTHROCNEMIS, Gould.

Modern identification

Black-necklaced Scimitar-Babbler

Erythrogenys erythrocnemis

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies · Timaliidae

Why

Gould's own Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis (Formosa) = Erythrogenys erythrocnemis, Black-necklaced Scimitar-Babbler of Taiwan; 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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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