Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 56

Little Bronze-Cuckoo

Printed “Little Cuckoo”

Supplement, plate 56 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus)
Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Little Cuckoo”

Chrysococcyx minutillus

Engraved caption: Chrysococcyx minutillus

The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Little Cuckoo.

Modern identification

Little Bronze-Cuckoo

Chalcites minutillus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cuckoos · Cuculidae

Why

Little Bronze-Cuckoo

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.

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