Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 47

Slender-billed White-eye

Printed “Slender-billed Zosterops”

Supplement, plate 47 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Slender-billed White-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris)
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Printed on the plate

“Slender-billed Zosterops”

Zosterops tenuirostris

Engraved caption: Zosterops tenuirostris

Modern identification

Slender-billed White-eye

Zosterops tenuirostris

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies · Zosteropidae

Why

Slender-billed White-eye (Norfolk); not in BirdNET

Sources

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

Who made the plate

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

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