Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 5

Tawny-bellied Babbler

Printed “White-throated Dumetia”

Volume IV, plate 5 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Tawny-bellied Babbler (Dumetia hyperythra)
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Printed on the plate

“White-throated Dumetia”

Dumetia albogularis

Engraved caption: DUMETIA ALBOCULARIS, Blyth

Modern identification

Tawny-bellied Babbler

Dumetia hyperythra

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies · Timaliidae

Why

Blyth's Malacocercus albogularis (S India, Ceylon) = Dumetia hyperythra albogularis, the white-throated race of Tawny-bellied Babbler; the plate shows the white throat on fawn underparts.

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 and C. H. 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