Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 25

White-throated Dipper

Printed “Cashmerian Water-Ouzel”

Volume IV, plate 25 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
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Printed on the plate

“Cashmerian Water-Ouzel”

Cinclus Cashmeriensis

Engraved caption: CINCLUS CASHMEIRIENSIS, Could

Modern identification

White-throated Dipper

Cinclus cinclus

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

Why

Cinclus cashmeriensis Gould, from Kashmir and Ladakh, is C. cinclus cashmeriensis, the dark-bellied Himalayan 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