Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 18

Hooded Plover

Printed “Hooded Dottrel”

Volume VI, plate 18 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Hooded Plover (Thinornis cucullatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Hooded Dottrel”

Hiaticula monacha

Engraved caption: Hiaticula monacha

Modern identification

Hooded Plover

Thinornis cucullatus

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

Why

monacha = Hooded Plover; not in BirdNET

Sources

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

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

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