Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 14

Fairy Gerygone

Printed “Masked Gerygone”

Supplement, plate 14 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Fairy Gerygone (Gerygone palpebrosa)
Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Masked Gerygone”

Gerygone personata

Engraved caption: Gerygone personata

Modern identification

Fairy Gerygone

Gerygone palpebrosa

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Thornbills and Allies · Acanthizidae

Why

Gould's Gerygone personata (Cape York) is the black-throated race of Fairy Gerygone, G. p. personata.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. Supp); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)

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.