Printed on the plate
“Azure-breasted Porphyrio”
Porphyrio bellus
Engraved caption: Porphyrio bellus
Modern identification
Porphyrio melanotus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae
Why
Gould's Porphyrio bellus is the south-western race of Australasian Swamphen, P. m. bellus.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
Who made the plate
J. & E. Gould del et lith.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Elizabeth Gould drew and lithographed
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