Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 78

Bornean Banded-Pitta

Printed “Schwaner's Pitta”

Volume V, plate 78 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Bornean Banded-Pitta (Hydrornis schwaneri)
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Printed on the plate

“Schwaner's Pitta”

Pitta Schwaneri

Engraved caption: PITTA SCHWANERI, Temm.

Modern identification

Bornean Banded-Pitta

Hydrornis schwaneri

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

Why

Temminck's Pitta schwaneri of Borneo = Bornean Banded-Pitta, Hydrornis schwaneri, one of eBird's three banded-pittas (V.77, V.83).

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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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