“Emerald Cuckoo” (Asian Emerald Cuckoo) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume VI, plate 46

Volume VI, plate 46 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Asian Emerald Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume VI, plate 46, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Emerald Cuckoo”

Chalcites Hodgsoni

Engraved caption: CHALCITES HODGSONI.

Modern identification

Asian Emerald Cuckoo

Chrysococcyx maculatus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Cuckoos · Cuculidae

Why

Gould's Chalcites hodgsoni (syn. Gmelin's Trogon maculatus) = Asian Emerald Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx maculatus.

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