Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 13

Australian Spectacled Monarch

Printed “White-bellied Flycatcher”

Supplement, plate 13 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Australian Spectacled Monarch (Symposiachrus trivirgatus)
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Printed on the plate

“White-bellied Flycatcher”

Monarcha albiventris

Engraved caption: Monarcha albiventris

Modern identification

Australian Spectacled Monarch

Symposiachrus trivirgatus

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Monarch Flycatchers · Monarchidae

Why

Monarcha albiventris Gould (Cape York; pure white belly and underwing) is the Cape York race of the Australian Spectacled Monarch, S. t. albiventris.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. Supp); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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

The same bird on other plates