Printed on the plate
“Allied Sericornis”
Sericornis osculans
Engraved caption: Sericornis osculans
Modern identification
Sericornis frontalis
- Judged
- Drawn before a split
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Thornbills and Allies · Acanthizidae
Why
Gould's osculans from South Australia rests on intergrades between the Mt Lofty race rosinae, which eBird 2025 keeps in White-browed Scrubwren, and mellori of the Spotted Scrubwren (Schodde & Mason 1999). The plate's birds fall between the two, with throats streaked black but chest and flanks plain and no white tail tips, so it stands for the White-browed Scrubwren as it was before the split.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. III); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; the plate, against III.49 and III.51; Dickinson & Christidis, H&M4 ii (2014), after Schodde & Mason 1999; Birds of the World
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
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