Printed on the plate
“Baudin’s Cockatoo”
Calyptorhynchus Baudinii
Engraved caption: Calyptorhynchus Baudinii
This identification is still open; the reasoning below says what would settle it. If you can, open an issue with the evidence.
Modern identification
Not identified
- Checked against the engraved caption
Why
Baudin's or Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo? The length of the upper mandible decides: Baudin's is long, narrow and projects well past the lower, Carnaby's is short and broad. The figure's head is turned and the bill foreshortened. Gould's name is Lear's baudinii, but his Swan River birds 'mainly subsist' on Banksia, shown on the plate, which is Carnaby's food.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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