Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 12

Black-bellied Plover

Printed “Grey Plover”

Volume VI, plate 12 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey Plover”

Squatarola helvetica

Engraved caption: Squatarola helvetica

Modern identification

Black-bellied Plover

Pluvialis squatarola

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Plovers and Lapwings · Charadriidae

Why

helvetica = Grey (Black-bellied) Plover

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.

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

The same bird on other plates