Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VI, plate 44

Red-crested Malkoha

Printed “Hairy-browed Cuckoo”

Volume VI, plate 44 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Red-crested Malkoha (Dasylophus superciliosus)
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Printed on the plate

“Hairy-browed Cuckoo”

Dasylophus superciliosus

Engraved caption: DASYLOPHUS SUPERCILIOSUS.

Modern identification

Red-crested Malkoha

Dasylophus superciliosus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cuckoos · Cuculidae

Why

Dasylophus superciliosus of Luzon = Red-crested Malkoha: black, with tufts of red bristles over the eye.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

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

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