Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume II, plate 7

White-throated Nightjar

Printed “White-throated Goat-sucker”

Volume II, plate 7 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: White-throated Nightjar (Eurostopodus mystacalis)
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Printed on the plate

“White-throated Goat-sucker”

Eurostopodus albogularis

Engraved caption: Eurostopodus albogularis

Modern identification

White-throated Nightjar

Eurostopodus mystacalis

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Nightjars and Allies · Caprimulgidae

Why

albogularis = White-throated Nightjar

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 deltC. Hullmandel Imp.

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