Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 78

Yellow-throated Miner

Printed “Luteous Honey-eater”

Volume IV, plate 78 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula)
Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Luteous Honey-eater”

Myzantha lutea

Engraved caption: Myzantha lutea

Modern identification

Yellow-throated Miner

Manorina flavigula

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

Why

Gould's Myzantha lutea, from the north-west coast, = the NW race lutea 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.

The same bird on other plates