Printed on the plate
“Helmeted Friar-bird”
Tropidorhynchus buceroides
Engraved caption: Tropidorhynchus buceroides
Modern identification
Philemon buceroides
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Honeyeaters · Meliphagidae
Why
Gould's Cape York bird: a large friarbird with a feathered, pale-scaled crown, a bare dark face and a raised casque. That is the Helmeted Friarbird (the race yorki), which eBird 2025 keeps in P. buceroides.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. Supp); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Hullmandel & Walton, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.