Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 72

Vinous-throated Parrotbill

Printed “Webb's Suthora”

Volume III, plate 72 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Vinous-throated Parrotbill (Suthora webbiana)
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Printed on the plate

“Webb's Suthora”

Suthora Webbiana

Engraved caption: SUTHORA WEBBIANA, GR.Gray.

Modern identification

Vinous-throated Parrotbill

Suthora webbiana

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

Why

Suthora webbiana Gray (Shanghai) = Vinous-throated Parrotbill, nominate race; eBird puts it in Suthora.

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.

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