Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume V, plate 25

Crimson Rosella

Printed “Yellow-rumped Parrakeet”

Volume V, plate 25 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-rumped Parrakeet”

Platycercus flaveolus

Engraved caption: Platycercus flaveolus

Modern identification

Crimson Rosella

Platycercus elegans

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae

Why

Gould's Platycercus flaveolus, of the Lachlan and Darling, = the Yellow Rosella, race flaveolus of Crimson Rosella.

Sources

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

Who made the plate

J. & E. Gould del et lith.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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

The same bird on other plates