Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 72

White-naped Honeyeater

Printed “Lunulated Honey-eater”

Volume IV, plate 72 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: White-naped Honeyeater (Melithreptus lunatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Lunulated Honey-eater”

Melithreptus lunulatus

Engraved caption: Melithreptus lunulatus

Modern identification

White-naped Honeyeater

Melithreptus lunatus

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

Why

lunulatus = White-naped 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.

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