Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 21

White-winged Grosbeak

Printed “Flesh-footed Grosbeak”

Volume V, plate 21 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: White-winged Grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)
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Printed on the plate

“Flesh-footed Grosbeak”

Mycerobas carneipes

Engraved caption: MYCEROBAS CARNIPES

Modern identification

White-winged Grosbeak

Mycerobas carnipes

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae

Why

Hodgson's Coccothraustes carnipes (syn. Brandt's speculigerus) = White-winged Grosbeak, Mycerobas carnipes.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. V); 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.

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