Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume II, plate 66

Black-tailed Whistler

Printed “Black-tailed Pachycephala”

Volume II, plate 66 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Black-tailed Whistler (Pachycephala melanura)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-tailed Pachycephala”

Pachycephala melanura

Engraved caption: Pachycephala melanura

Modern identification

Black-tailed Whistler

Pachycephala melanura

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Whistlers and Allies · Pachycephalidae

Why

Mangrove Golden Whistler; not in BirdNET

Sources

List of Plates (vol. II); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.

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