“Curl-crested Cuckoo” (Scale-feathered Malkoha) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume VI, plate 45

Volume VI, plate 45 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Scale-feathered Malkoha (Dasylophus cumingi) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume VI, plate 45, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Curl-crested Cuckoo”

Lepidogrammus Cumingi

Engraved caption: LEPIDOGRAMMUS COMINGI.

Modern identification

Scale-feathered Malkoha

Dasylophus cumingi

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Cuckoos · Cuculidae

Why

Fraser's Phoenicophaeus cumingi of Luzon = Scale-feathered Malkoha, Dasylophus cumingi.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF
Avibase

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