Printed on the plate
“Textile Wren”
Amytis textilis
Engraved caption: Amytis textilis
Modern identification
Amytornis modestus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Fairywrens · Maluridae
Why
Gould saw the Textile Wren only on the plains of the Lower Namoi, NSW, where he 'killed and dissected many examples', and the plate's male and female are those birds: the extinct NSW race inexpectatus of the Thick-billed Grasswren. Quoy and Gaimard's textilis, from Western Australia, is the Western Grasswren.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee, A. m. inexpectatus determination (2020); Black 2016, Bull. BOC 136; IOC 15.1
Who made the plate
J. & E. Gould delC. Hullmandel Imp.
- John Gould drew
- Elizabeth Gould drew
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
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