Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 13

Whiskered Yuhina

Printed “Crested Ixulus”

Volume IV, plate 13 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Whiskered Yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis)
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Printed on the plate

“Crested Ixulus”

Ixulus flavicollis

Engraved caption: IXULUS FLAVICOLLIS, HodgS.

Modern identification

Whiskered Yuhina

Yuhina flavicollis

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

Why

Hodgson's Yuhina flavicollis (Ixulus) = Whiskered Yuhina; same species, back in Yuhina.

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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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