Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 67

Himalayan Cutia

Printed “Nepaul Cutia”

Volume III, plate 67 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Himalayan Cutia (Cutia nipalensis)
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Printed on the plate

“Nepaul Cutia”

Cutia Nipalensis

Engraved caption: CUTIA NIPALENSIS, Hodgs

Modern identification

Himalayan Cutia

Cutia nipalensis

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

Why

Cutia nipalensis Hodgson = Himalayan Cutia; same name.

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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

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