Printed on the plate
“Pale-headed Parrakeet”
Platycercus palliceps
Engraved caption: Platycercus palliceps
Modern identification
Platycercus adscitus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae
Why
Vigors's Platycercus palliceps, all of Gould's birds from Moreton Bay, = the southern race palliceps of Pale-headed Rosella.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. & E. Gould del et lith.C. Hullmandel Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Elizabeth Gould drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
