Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume V, plate 79

Orange-footed Megapode

Printed “Mound-raising Megapode”

Volume V, plate 79 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Orange-footed Megapode (Megapodius reinwardt)
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Printed on the plate

“Mound-raising Megapode”

Megapodius Tumulus

Modern identification

Orange-footed Megapode

Megapodius reinwardt

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Megapodes · Megapodiidae

Why

Gould's Megapodius tumulus, of the Cobourg Peninsula, = the N Australian race tumulus of Orange-footed Megapode.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. V); Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)

Who made the plate

No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off: the sheet ends at the foot of the picture, above the caption.