Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 58

Noisy Friarbird

Printed “Friar-Bird”

Volume IV, plate 58 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Friar-Bird”

Tropidorhynchus corniculatus

Engraved caption: Tropidorhynchus corniculatus

Modern identification

Noisy Friarbird

Philemon corniculatus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Honeyeaters · Meliphagidae

Why

Noisy Friarbird

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.

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