Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 64

Red-headed Myzomela

Printed “Red-headed Honey-eater”

Volume IV, plate 64 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Red-headed Myzomela (Myzomela erythrocephala)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-headed Honey-eater”

Myzomela erythrocephala

Engraved caption: Myzomela erythrocephala

Modern identification

Red-headed Myzomela

Myzomela erythrocephala

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

Why

Red-headed Myzomela

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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