Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 37

Black-faced Laughingthrush

Printed “Allied Thrush”

Volume III, plate 37 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-faced Laughingthrush (Trochalopteron affine)
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Printed on the plate

“Allied Thrush”

Trochalopteron affine

Engraved caption: TROCHALOPTERON AFFINE, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Black-faced Laughingthrush

Trochalopteron affine

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

Why

Garrulax affinis Hodgson (Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan) = Trochalopteron affine, Black-faced Laughingthrush, nominate race.

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 & W. Hart del et lith.Walter imp.

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

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