Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 74

Northern Cassowary

Printed “One-carunculated Cassowary (head and feet, nat. size)”

Supplement, plate 74 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Northern Cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus)
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Printed on the plate

“One-carunculated Cassowary (head and feet, nat. size)”

Casuarius uniappendiculatus

Engraved caption: Casuarius uniappendiculatus

Modern identification

Northern Cassowary

Casuarius unappendiculatus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cassowaries and Emu · Casuariidae

Why

Northern Cassowary; 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 & 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