Printed on the plate
“Fuscous Gerygone”
Gerygone fuscus
Engraved caption: Gerygone fuscus
Modern identification
Gerygone mouki
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Thornbills and Allies · Acanthizidae
Why
Gould's name and description (tail 'white at the base') are the Western Gerygone's, but both figures are Brown Gerygones: a brown tail base, black band and white tip spots, a rufous-buff rump, flanks and vent, and a short white brow, with none of the white tail base that II.99 shows. His NSW brushes and Hunter River nest are the Brown's (race richmondi), and Sharpe cites this plate for eastern birds he describes the same way.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. II); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; the plate, against II.99; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM iv: 223
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.