Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume II, plate 69

White-breasted Whistler

Printed “Shrike-like Pachycephala”

Volume II, plate 69 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: White-breasted Whistler (Pachycephala lanioides)
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Printed on the plate

“Shrike-like Pachycephala”

Pachycephala Lanoides

Engraved caption: Pachycephala Lanoides

Modern identification

White-breasted Whistler

Pachycephala lanioides

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

Why

White-breasted 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

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

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