Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 57

Hoary-throated Barwing

Printed “Nepalese Actinodura”

Volume III, plate 57 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Hoary-throated Barwing (Actinodura nipalensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Nepalese Actinodura”

Actinodura Nipalensis

Engraved caption: ACTINODURA NIPALENSIS, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Hoary-throated Barwing

Actinodura nipalensis

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

Why

Cinclosoma nipalensis Hodgson = Actinodura nipalensis, Hoary-throated Barwing; 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 lithWalter, Imp.

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