Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VI, plate 49

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Printed “Yellow-legged Spoonbill”

Volume VI, plate 49 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-legged Spoonbill”

Platalea flavipes

Engraved caption: Platalea flavipes

Modern identification

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Platalea flavipes

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Ibises and Spoonbills · Threskiornithidae

Why

Yellow-billed Spoonbill; not in BirdNET

Sources

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

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del.C. Hullmandel Imp

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