Printed on the plate
“Guttural Pachycephala”
Pachycephala gutturalis
Engraved caption: Pachycephala gutturalis
Modern identification
Pachycephala pectoralis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Whistlers and Allies · Pachycephalidae
Why
Turdus gutturalis Latham = Golden Whistler; the plate shows the black-hooded, white-throated yellow male and the grey female. Gould's synonymy also takes in the western fuliginosa, but eBird 2025 keeps Western Whistler in Golden Whistler, so the species is the same either way.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. II); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
