Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 53

Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler

Printed “Long-tailed Hill-Wren”

Volume IV, plate 53 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler (Spelaeornis longicaudatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Long-tailed Hill-Wren”

Urocichla longicauda

Engraved caption: UROCICHLA LONGICAUDATA.

Modern identification

Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler

Spelaeornis longicaudatus

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

Why

Moore's Pnoepyga longicaudata (Khasi Hills) = Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler: grey face, rufous breast, long tail.

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 & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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