Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 46

Robin Accentor

Printed “Red-breasted Accentor”

Volume IV, plate 46 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Robin Accentor (Prunella rubeculoides)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-breasted Accentor”

Accentor rubeculoides

Engraved caption: ACCENTOR REBECULOIDES, More

Modern identification

Robin Accentor

Prunella rubeculoides

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Accentors · Prunellidae

Why

Moore's Accentor rubeculoides, from Hodgson's Nepal skins = Robin Accentor, Prunella rubeculoides.

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.

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