Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume V, plate 31

Northern Rosella

Printed “Brown’s Parrakeet”

Volume V, plate 31 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Northern Rosella (Platycercus venustus)
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Printed on the plate

“Brown’s Parrakeet”

Platycercus Brownii

Engraved caption: Platycercus Brownii

Modern identification

Northern Rosella

Platycercus venustus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Old World Parrots · Psittaculidae

Why

brownii = Northern Rosella; not in BirdNET

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.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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