Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Supplement, plate 8

Spotted Pardalote

Printed “Yellow-rumped Pardalote”

Supplement, plate 8 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-rumped Pardalote”

Pardalotus xanthopygius

Engraved caption: Pardalotus xanthopygius

Modern identification

Spotted Pardalote

Pardalotus punctatus

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pardalotes · Pardalotidae

Why

Gould's Pardalotus xanthopygius is the Yellow-rumped Pardalote, now the race P. punctatus xanthopyge.

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 lithWalter, Imp

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

The same bird on other plates