Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 69

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Printed “White-pinioned Honey-eater”

Volume IV, plate 69 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
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Printed on the plate

“White-pinioned Honey-eater”

Entomyza albipennis

Engraved caption: Entomyza albipennis

Modern identification

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Entomyzon cyanotis

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Honeyeaters · Meliphagidae

Why

Gould's Entomyza albipennis, of Port Essington, = the northern race albipennis of Blue-faced Honeyeater.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

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

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

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