Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume IV, plate 9

Black-chinned Babbler

Printed “Red-eyed Stachyris”

Volume IV, plate 9 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-chinned Babbler (Cyanoderma pyrrhops)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-eyed Stachyris”

Stachyris pyrrhops

Engraved caption: STACHYRIS PYRRHOPS, Hodgs.

Modern identification

Black-chinned Babbler

Cyanoderma pyrrhops

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

Why

Hodgson's Stachyris pyrrhops = Black-chinned Babbler, now Cyanoderma pyrrhops; same species, newer genus.

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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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