Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 68

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Printed “Blue-faced Entomyza”

Volume IV, plate 68 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
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Printed on the plate

“Blue-faced Entomyza”

Entomyza cyanotis

Engraved caption: Entomyza cyanotis

Modern identification

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Entomyzon cyanotis

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

Why

Blue-faced Honeyeater

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.

The same bird on other plates