Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 70

Black-throated Parrotbill

Printed “White-faced Suthora”

Volume III, plate 70 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-throated Parrotbill (Suthora nipalensis)
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Printed on the plate

“White-faced Suthora”

Suthora Nipalensis

Engraved caption: SUTHORA NIPALENSIS, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Black-throated Parrotbill

Suthora nipalensis

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

Why

Suthora nipalensis Hodgson (Nepal; the grey-crowned upper bird as Hodgson describes it) = Black-throated Parrotbill; 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 and H. C. Richter del et lithHullmandel & Walton Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates