Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume II, plate 67

Rufous Whistler

Printed “Banded Thick-head”

Volume II, plate 67 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris)
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Printed on the plate

“Banded Thick-head”

Pachycephala pectoralis

Engraved caption: Pachycephala pectoralis

Modern identification

Rufous Whistler

Pachycephala rufiventris

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

Why

TRAP: Gould's 'P. pectoralis, Banded Thick-head' is Latham's Muscicapa pectoralis = Rufous Whistler (orange-brown belly, black band); binomial now = Golden Whistler

Sources

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

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.

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