Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 2

Chestnut-headed Tesia

Printed “Chestnut-crowned Tesia”

Volume IV, plate 2 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Chestnut-headed Tesia (Cettia castaneocoronata)
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Printed on the plate

“Chestnut-crowned Tesia”

Tesia castaneo-coronata

Engraved caption: TESIA CASTANEOCORONATA.

Modern identification

Chestnut-headed Tesia

Cettia castaneocoronata

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

Why

Burton's Sylvia castaneo-coronata (syn. Hodgson's Tesia flaviventer) = Chestnut-headed Tesia, now Cettia castaneocoronata; 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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton. Imp.

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