Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 36

White-winged Redstart

Printed “Great White-capped Redstart”

Volume IV, plate 36 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-winged Redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus)
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Printed on the plate

“Great White-capped Redstart”

Ruticilla erythrogastra

Engraved caption: RUTICILLA ERYTHROGASTRA.

Modern identification

White-winged Redstart

Phoenicurus erythrogastrus

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

Why

erythrogastra Güldenstädt = White-winged Redstart: white cap, large white wing patch, dull brown female; the White-capped Redstart has neither; not in BirdNET

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.