Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume IV, plate 90

Channel-billed Cuckoo

Printed “Channel-Bill”

Volume IV, plate 90 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)
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Printed on the plate

“Channel-Bill”

Scythrops Novae-Hollandiae

Engraved caption: Scythrops Novae-Hollandiae

Modern identification

Channel-billed Cuckoo

Scythrops novaehollandiae

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

Why

Channel-billed 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.