Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VII, plate 63

Black-winged Pratincole

Volume VII, plate 63 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-winged Pratincole”

Glareola melanoptera

Engraved caption: GLAREOLA MELANOPTERA: Nordm:

Modern identification

Black-winged Pratincole

Glareola nordmanni

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pratincoles and Coursers · Glareolidae

Why

Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni, KU), not in BirdNET; the survey's Oriental Pratincole is wrong

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue

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.