Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VI, plate 71

Red-breasted Partridge

Printed “Rufous-breasted Bamboo-Partridge”

Volume VI, plate 71 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Red-breasted Partridge (Arborophila hyperythra)
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Printed on the plate

“Rufous-breasted Bamboo-Partridge”

Bambusicola hyperythra

Engraved caption: BAMBUSICOLA HYPERYTHRA, Sharpe.

Modern identification

Red-breasted Partridge

Arborophila hyperythra

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae

Why

Sharpe's Bambusicola hyperythra, from the Lawas River in Borneo = Red-breasted Partridge, now Arborophila hyperythra.

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)

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter Imp.

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