Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 74

Reed Parrotbill

Printed “Pere Heude's Paradoxornis”

Volume III, plate 74 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Reed Parrotbill (Paradoxornis heudei)
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Printed on the plate

“Pere Heude's Paradoxornis”

Paradoxornis Heudei

Engraved caption: PARADOXORNIS HEUDEI, A Darid.

Modern identification

Reed Parrotbill

Paradoxornis heudei

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

Why

Paradoxornis heudei David = Reed Parrotbill; same species.

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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