Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 71

Black-chinned Honeyeater

Printed “Black-throated Honey-eater”

Volume IV, plate 71 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-throated Honey-eater”

Melithreptus gularis

Engraved caption: Melithreptus gularis

The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Black-throated Honeyeater.

Modern identification

Black-chinned Honeyeater

Melithreptus gularis

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

Why

Black-chinned 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. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.

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