Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 10

Rufous-capped Babbler

Printed “Red-headed Stachyris”

Volume IV, plate 10 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Rufous-capped Babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-headed Stachyris”

Stachyris ruficeps

Engraved caption: STACHYRIS RUFICEPS, Blyth.

Modern identification

Rufous-capped Babbler

Cyanoderma ruficeps

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies · Timaliidae

Why

Blyth's Stachyris ruficeps = Rufous-capped Babbler, now Cyanoderma ruficeps; same species, newer genus.

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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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