Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 38

Gray-tailed Tattler

Printed “Grey-rumped Sandpiper”

Volume VI, plate 38 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Gray-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey-rumped Sandpiper”

Totanus griseopygius

Engraved caption: Totanus griseopygius

Modern identification

Gray-tailed Tattler

Tringa brevipes

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

Why

griseopygius = Grey-tailed Tattler

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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