Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 24

White-throated Dipper

Printed “White-bellied Water-Ouzel”

Volume IV, plate 24 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
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Printed on the plate

“White-bellied Water-Ouzel”

Cinclus leucogaster

Engraved caption: CINCLUS LEUCOGASTER, Eversm

Modern identification

White-throated Dipper

Cinclus cinclus

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

Why

Cinclus leucogaster Eversmann, from Semipalatinsk and the Altai, is C. cinclus leucogaster, the white-bellied central Asian race of White-throated 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.

The same bird on other plates