Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 68

Brown-winged Parrotbill

Printed “Anderson's Suthora”

Volume III, plate 68 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Brown-winged Parrotbill (Suthora brunnea)
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Printed on the plate

“Anderson's Suthora”

Suthora brunnea

Engraved caption: SUTIHORA BRUNNEA, Anderson.

Modern identification

Brown-winged Parrotbill

Suthora brunnea

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Parrotbills · Paradoxornithidae

Why

Suthora brunnea Anderson (Yunnan) = Brown-winged Parrotbill: chestnut head, vinous streaked throat, no rufous in the wing.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart del. et lith.Walter imp.

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