Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 59

Silver-crowned Friarbird

Printed “Silvery-crowned Friar-Bird”

Volume IV, plate 59 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Silver-crowned Friarbird (Philemon argenticeps)
Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Silvery-crowned Friar-Bird”

Tropidorhynchus argenticeps

Engraved caption: Tropidorhynchus argenticeps

Modern identification

Silver-crowned Friarbird

Philemon argenticeps

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

Why

Silver-crowned Friarbird; not in BirdNET

Sources

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

Who made the plate

J. & E. Gould delt.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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