Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 33

White-tailed Stonechat

Printed “White-tailed Bush-Chat”

Volume IV, plate 33 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-tailed Stonechat (Saxicola leucurus)
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Printed on the plate

“White-tailed Bush-Chat”

Pratincola leucura

Engraved caption: PRATINCOLA LEUCURA, Blyth.

Modern identification

White-tailed Stonechat

Saxicola leucurus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Flycatchers · Muscicapidae

Why

Blyth's Pratincola leucura = White-tailed Stonechat: the male's tail is white but for the central pair and tips.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould, & H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter. Imp.

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