Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 36

Common Greenshank

Printed “Australian Greenshank”

Volume VI, plate 36 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
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Printed on the plate

“Australian Greenshank”

Glottis glottoides

Engraved caption: Glottis glottoides

Modern identification

Common Greenshank

Tringa nebularia

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

glottoides = Common Greenshank

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.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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

The same bird on other plates