Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 20

Black-fronted Dotterel

Printed “Black-fronted Dottrel”

Volume VI, plate 20 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Black-fronted Dotterel (Thinornis melanops)
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Printed on the plate

“Black-fronted Dottrel”

Hiaticula nigrifrons

Engraved caption: Hiaticula nigrifrons

Modern identification

Black-fronted Dotterel

Thinornis melanops

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

Why

nigrifrons = Black-fronted Dotterel

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.

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