Printed on the plate
“Australian Cuckoo”
Cuculus optatus
Engraved caption: Cuculus optatus
Modern identification
Cuculus optatus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cuckoos · Cuculidae
Why
Oriental Cuckoo
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
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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