Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 68

Spinifex Pigeon

Printed “Rust-coloured Bronzewing”

Supplement, plate 68 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera)
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Printed on the plate

“Rust-coloured Bronzewing”

Lophophaps ferruginea

Engraved caption: Lophophaps ferruginea

Modern identification

Spinifex Pigeon

Geophaps plumifera

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pigeons and Doves · Columbidae

Why

Gould's Lophophaps ferruginea is the rufous-bellied race of Spinifex Pigeon, G. p. ferruginea.

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.

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

The same bird on other plates