Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 61

Mongolian Ground-Jay

Printed “Henderson's Podoces”

Volume V, plate 61 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Mongolian Ground-Jay (Podoces hendersoni)
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Printed on the plate

“Henderson's Podoces”

Podoces Hendersoni

Engraved caption: PODOCES HENDERSONI, Hune.

Modern identification

Mongolian Ground-Jay

Podoces hendersoni

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

Why

Hume's Podoces hendersoni, from the first Yarkand expedition = Mongolian Ground-Jay; same name today.

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 & W. Hart del et lithWalter, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.