Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 6

Tawny-bellied Babbler

Printed “Buff-throated Dumetia”

Volume IV, plate 6 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Tawny-bellied Babbler (Dumetia hyperythra)
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Printed on the plate

“Buff-throated Dumetia”

Dumetia hyperythra

Engraved caption: DUMETIA HYPERYTHRA.

Modern identification

Tawny-bellied Babbler

Dumetia hyperythra

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

Why

Franklin's Timalia hyperythra = Tawny-bellied Babbler, the buff-throated nominate race (the white-throated race is IV.5).

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.

The same bird on other plates