Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 22

Brown Dipper

Printed “Pallas's Water-Ouzel”

Volume IV, plate 22 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)
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Printed on the plate

“Pallas's Water-Ouzel”

Cinclus Pallasi

Engraved caption: CINCLUS PALLASH, Temm

Modern identification

Brown Dipper

Cinclus pallasii

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Dippers · Cinclidae

Why

Temminck's Cinclus pallasii, figured from a Japanese specimen in the Derby Museum = Brown Dipper, nominate race.

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.

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

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