Printed on the plate
“White-eyed Crow”
Corvus Coronoides
Engraved caption: Corvus Coronoides
Modern identification
Corvus tasmanicus
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Gould's Corvus coronoides covered every Australian corvid, but he writes that the plate represents a male killed in Van Diemen's Land, where the Forest Raven is the only corvid, and the figure's massive, deep bill is the Forest Raven's. Its throat hackle is a ruff of pointed feathers, not the Australian Raven's long beard, and Forest Ravens have hackles too, so the drawing does not outweigh the specimen's stated locality.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; the plate; sources/doubtful-decisions.csv
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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