Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 75

Black-crowned Pitta

Printed “Ussher's Pitta”

Volume V, plate 75 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-crowned Pitta (Erythropitta ussheri)
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Printed on the plate

“Ussher's Pitta”

Pitta Ussheri

Engraved caption: PITTA USSHERI.

Modern identification

Black-crowned Pitta

Erythropitta ussheri

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pittas · Pittidae

Why

Sharpe's Brachyurus ussheri of northern Borneo = Black-crowned Pitta, split from the Garnet Pitta; Kansas's Graceful Pitta is a Sumatran bird.

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 lith.Walter imp.

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