Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume II, plate 68

Yellow-browed Warbler

Volume II, plate 68 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-browed Warbler”

Reguloïdes superciliosus

Engraved caption: REGULOIDES SUPERCILIOSUS.

Modern identification

Yellow-browed Warbler

Phylloscopus inornatus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Leaf Warblers · Phylloscopidae

Why

Reguloides superciliosus = Yellow-browed Warbler, Phylloscopus inornatus; the British bird (Hancock's Regulus modestus, 1838), not Hume's Warbler.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; pinned in Featherframe (gould_britain.yaml)

Who made the plate

J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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