Printed on the plate
“Brush Wattle-Bird”
Anthochaera mellivora
Engraved caption: Anthochaera mellivora
Modern identification
Anthochaera chrysoptera
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Honeyeaters · Meliphagidae
Why
mellivora = Little (Brush) Wattlebird
Sources
List of Plates (vol. IV); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. & E. Gould delt.C. Hullmandel Imp.
- John Gould drew
- Elizabeth Gould drew
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
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