Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 12

White-naped Yuhina

Printed “Thick-billed Ixulus”

Volume IV, plate 12 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-naped Yuhina (Yuhina bakeri)
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Printed on the plate

“Thick-billed Ixulus”

Ixulus occipitalis

Engraved caption: IXULUS OCCIPITALIS, Blyth.

Modern identification

White-naped Yuhina

Yuhina bakeri

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies · Zosteropidae

Why

Blyth's Siva occipitalis (Nepal, Sikkim), preoccupied by Hodgson's Yuhina occipitalis and renamed Y. bakeri = White-naped Yuhina: chestnut crest, white nape, rufous ear-coverts.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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