Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume III, plate 45

Golden-headed Cisticola

Printed “Rufous-headed Warbler”

Volume III, plate 45 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Golden-headed Cisticola (Cisticola exilis)
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Printed on the plate

“Rufous-headed Warbler”

Cysticola ruficeps

Engraved caption: Cysticola ruficeps

Modern identification

Golden-headed Cisticola

Cisticola exilis

  • Certain
  • A variant
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cisticolas and Allies · Cisticolidae

Why

Cysticola ruficeps Gould (uniform rufous-fawn head; Liverpool Plains, Port Phillip, north coast) is the breeding male of the Golden-headed Cisticola, a plumage Gould took for a species.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

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

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

The same bird on other plates