Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume V, plate 12

Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Printed “Yellow-eared Black Cockatoo”

Volume V, plate 12 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Zanda funerea)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-eared Black Cockatoo”

Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus

Engraved caption: Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus

Modern identification

Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Zanda funerea

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Cockatoos · Cacatuidae

Why

Gould's Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus, of Van Diemen's Land and South Australia, = the southern race xanthanota of Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.

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

The same bird on other plates