Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 55

Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler

Printed “Hume's Wedge-billed Wren”

Volume IV, plate 55 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler (Stachyris humei)
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Printed on the plate

“Hume's Wedge-billed Wren”

Sphenocichla Humii

Engraved caption: SPHENOCICHLA HUMII.

Modern identification

Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler

Stachyris humei

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

Why

Mandelli's Heterorhynchus humii (Sikkim) = Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler, now in Stachyris: blackish breast scaled ashy.

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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