Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 35

Red-faced Liocichla

Printed “Crimson-winged Trochalopteron”

Volume III, plate 35 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Red-faced Liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea)
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Printed on the plate

“Crimson-winged Trochalopteron”

Trochalopteron phoeniceum

Engraved caption: TROCHALOPTERON PHŒMICEUM.

Modern identification

Red-faced Liocichla

Liocichla phoenicea

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Laughingthrushes and Allies · Leiothrichidae

Why

Ianthocincla phoenicea Gould = Liocichla phoenicea, Red-faced Liocichla; same species, now Liocichla.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

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

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