Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 38

Variegated Laughingthrush

Printed “Variegated Thrush”

Volume III, plate 38 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Variegated Laughingthrush (Trochalopteron variegatum)
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Printed on the plate

“Variegated Thrush”

Trochalopteron variegatum

Engraved caption: TROCHALOPTERON VARIEGATUM.

Modern identification

Variegated Laughingthrush

Trochalopteron variegatum

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

Why

Cinclosoma variegatum Vigors (NW Himalaya) = Trochalopteron variegatum, Variegated Laughingthrush; Kansas's Chestnut-crowned is another bird.

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.

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