Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VII, plate 61

Ibisbill

Printed “Red-billed Erolia”

Volume VII, plate 61 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-billed Erolia”

Ibidorhynchus Struthersi

Engraved caption: IBIDORHYNCHA STRUTHERSI, Vigors.

Modern identification

Ibisbill

Ibidorhyncha struthersii

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Ibisbill · Ibidorhynchidae

Why

Red-billed Erolia = Ibisbill

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VII); 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.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.