Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 14

Rufous-vented Yuhina

Printed “Rusty-naped Yuhina”

Volume IV, plate 14 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Rufous-vented Yuhina (Yuhina occipitalis)
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Printed on the plate

“Rusty-naped Yuhina”

Yuhina occipitalis

Engraved caption: YUHINA OCCIPITALIS, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Rufous-vented Yuhina

Yuhina occipitalis

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

Why

Hodgson's Yuhina occipitalis = Rufous-vented Yuhina; same name today.

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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