Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 40

Mangrove Honeyeater

Printed “Fasciated Honey-eater”

Supplement, plate 40 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Mangrove Honeyeater (Gavicalis fasciogularis)
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Printed on the plate

“Fasciated Honey-eater”

Ptilotis fasciogularis

Engraved caption: Ptilotis fasciogularis

Modern identification

Mangrove Honeyeater

Gavicalis fasciogularis

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Honeyeaters · Meliphagidae

Why

Mangrove Honeyeater

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 and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.

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