Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume III, plate 39

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

Printed “Red-rumped Wren”

Volume III, plate 39 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-rumped Wren”

Hylacola pyrrhopygia

Engraved caption: Hylacola pyrrhopygia

Modern identification

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

Hylacola pyrrhopygia

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Thornbills and Allies · Acanthizidae

Why

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren; not in BirdNET

Sources

List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk

Who made the plate

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

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