Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 52

Hooded Treepie

Printed “Hooded Crypsirhina”

Volume V, plate 52 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Hooded Treepie (Crypsirina cucullata)
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Printed on the plate

“Hooded Crypsirhina”

Crypsirhina cucullata

Engraved caption: CRYPSIRINA CUCULLATA, Jera.

Modern identification

Hooded Treepie

Crypsirina cucullata

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae

Why

Jerdon's Crypsirhina cucullata (Thayetmyo, Burma) = Hooded Treepie.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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