Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 103

Varied Sittella

Printed “White-winged Sittella”

Volume IV, plate 103 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera)
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Printed on the plate

“White-winged Sittella”

Sittella leucoptera

Engraved caption: Sittella leucoptera

Modern identification

Varied Sittella

Daphoenositta chrysoptera

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Sittellas · Neosittidae

Why

Gould's Sittella leucoptera, of the Cobourg Peninsula, = the white-winged northern race leucoptera of Varied Sittella.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

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

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

The same bird on other plates