Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume V, plate 69

Spinifex Pigeon

Printed “Plumed Partridge Bronze-wing”

Volume V, plate 69 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera)
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Printed on the plate

“Plumed Partridge Bronze-wing”

Geophaps plumifera

Engraved caption: Geophaps plumifera

Modern identification

Spinifex Pigeon

Geophaps plumifera

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pigeons and Doves · Columbidae

Why

Spinifex Pigeon; 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 lithog.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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

The same bird on other plates