Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 236, volume III

Eurasian Nuthatch

Printed “Asiatic Nuthatch”

Plate 236 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
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Printed on the plate

“Asiatic Nuthatch”

Sitta Asiatica

Engraved caption: Asiatic Nuthatch Sitta Asiatica (Temm.)

Modern identification

Eurasian Nuthatch

Sitta europaea

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Nuthatches · Sittidae

Why

Sitta asiatica Temm. = the white-bellied Siberian race of Eurasian Nuthatch

Sources

General List (vol. I); crosswalk

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

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

The same bird on other plates