Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 25

Black Stilt

Printed “New Zealand Stilt”

Volume VI, plate 25 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Black Stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae)
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Printed on the plate

“New Zealand Stilt”

Himantopus Novae-Zelandiae

Modern identification

Black Stilt

Himantopus novaezelandiae

  • Certain
  • Stilts and Avocets · Recurvirostridae

Why

Black Stilt; not in BirdNET

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VI); Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk

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.