Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume III, plate 77

Gray-headed Parrotbill

Printed “Grey-crowned Paradoxornis”

Volume III, plate 77 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-headed Parrotbill (Paradoxornis gularis)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey-crowned Paradoxornis”

Paradoxornis gularis

Engraved caption: PARADOXORNIS GULARIS, Horsf

Modern identification

Gray-headed Parrotbill

Paradoxornis gularis

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

Why

Paradoxornis gularis (Horsfield's MS name, Bhutan) = Gray-headed Parrotbill; 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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