Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume V, plate 56

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove

Printed “Ewing’s Fruit Pigeon”

Volume V, plate 56 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus regina)
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Printed on the plate

“Ewing’s Fruit Pigeon”

Ptilinopus Ewingii

Engraved caption: Ptilinopus Ewingii

Modern identification

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove

Ptilinopus regina

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pigeons and Doves · Columbidae

Why

Gould's Ptilinopus ewingii, of the Cobourg Peninsula, = the northern race ewingii of Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove.

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 deltC. Hullmandel Imp

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

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