Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 65

Double-eyed Fig-Parrot

Printed “Coxen's Parrakeet”

Supplement, plate 65 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma)
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Printed on the plate

“Coxen's Parrakeet”

Cyclopsitta Coxeni

Engraved caption: Cyclopsitta Coxeni

Modern identification

Double-eyed Fig-Parrot

Cyclopsitta diophthalma

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae

Why

Gould's Cyclopsitta coxeni is Coxen's Fig-Parrot, the race C. d. coxeni of Double-eyed Fig-Parrot.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

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