Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 1

Gray-bellied Tesia

Printed “Blue-bellied Tesia”

Volume IV, plate 1 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Gray-bellied Tesia (Tesia cyaniventer)
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Printed on the plate

“Blue-bellied Tesia”

Tesia cyaneiventer

Engraved caption: TESIA CYANEIVENTER, Hodgs

Modern identification

Gray-bellied Tesia

Tesia cyaniventer

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Bush Warblers and Allies · Cettiidae

Why

Hodgson's Tesia cyaniventer (printed cyaneiventer) = Gray-bellied Tesia; same species, the epithet now spelled cyaniventer.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. IV); 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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