Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 54

Black-throated Laughingthrush

Printed “Chinese Garrulax”

Volume III, plate 54 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-throated Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Chinese Garrulax”

Garrulax chinensis

Engraved caption: GARRULAX CHONENSIS.

Modern identification

Black-throated Laughingthrush

Pterorhinus chinensis

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

Why

Lanius chinensis Scopoli, drawn from a live bird at the Zoological Society = Pterorhinus chinensis, Black-throated Laughingthrush; 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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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