Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 77

Yellow-throated Miner

Printed “Sombre Honey-eater”

Volume IV, plate 77 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula)
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Printed on the plate

“Sombre Honey-eater”

Myzantha obscura

Engraved caption: Myzantha obscura

Modern identification

Yellow-throated Miner

Manorina flavigula

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

Why

Gould's Myzantha obscura, of Swan River and SW Australia, = the dark-rumped SW race obscura of Yellow-throated Miner.

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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