Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 89

Shining Bronze-Cuckoo

Printed “Shining Cuckoo”

Volume IV, plate 89 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Shining Bronze-Cuckoo (Chalcites lucidus)
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Printed on the plate

“Shining Cuckoo”

Chrysococcyx lucidus

Engraved caption: Chrysococcyx lucidus

Modern identification

Shining Bronze-Cuckoo

Chalcites lucidus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cuckoos · Cuculidae

Why

Shining Bronze-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.

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