Printed on the plate
“Flinders’s Cuckoo”
Eudynamys Flindersii
Engraved caption: Eudynamys Flindersii
Modern identification
Eudynamys orientalis
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cuckoos · Cuculidae
Why
Gould's Eudynamys flindersii, with Latham's cyanocephalus in his synonymy, = the Australian race cyanocephalus of Pacific Koel.
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.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
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