Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 21

Brown Dipper

Printed “Asiatic Water-Ouzel”

Volume IV, plate 21 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)
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Printed on the plate

“Asiatic Water-Ouzel”

Cinclus Asiaticus

Engraved caption: CINCLUS ASIATICUS Swains.

Modern identification

Brown Dipper

Cinclus pallasii

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Dippers · Cinclidae

Why

Cinclus asiaticus Swainson, the all-brown dipper of the Himalaya from Bhutan to Afghanistan (tenuirostris in Gould's synonymy), is C. pallasii tenuirostris, the Himalayan race of Brown Dipper.

Sources

List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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