“Red-backed Pitta” (Blue-headed Pitta) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume V, plate 72

Volume V, plate 72 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Blue-headed Pitta (Hydrornis baudii) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume V, plate 72, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Red-backed Pitta”

Pitta Baudii

Engraved caption: PITTA BAUTDII, Müller & Schleg.

Modern identification

Blue-headed Pitta

Hydrornis baudii

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Pittas · Pittidae

Why

Müller and Schlegel's Pitta baudii of Borneo = Blue-headed Pitta, Hydrornis baudii.

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)

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Wikidata
GBIF
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Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart del. et lith.Walter imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
Walter printed

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

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library