Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 61

Eastern Spinebill

Printed “Slender-billed Spine-bill”

Volume IV, plate 61 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)
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Printed on the plate

“Slender-billed Spine-bill”

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

Engraved caption: Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

Modern identification

Eastern Spinebill

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

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

Why

Eastern Spinebill

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. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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