“Pectoral Rail” (Buff-banded Rail) · Gould, The Birds of Australia, volume VI, plate 76

Volume VI, plate 76 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume VI, plate 76, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Pectoral Rail”

Rallus pectoralis

Engraved caption: Rallus pectoralis

Modern identification

Buff-banded Rail

Gallirallus philippensis

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae

Why

TRAP: Gould's 'Rallus pectoralis, Pectoral Rail' (summer visitant 'Land Rail') = Buff-banded Rail; Temminck's pectoralis now names Lewin's Rail (VI.77)

Sources

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

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF
Avibase

Who made the plate

J. Gould, and H. C. Richter del et lithHullmandel & Walton Imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Hullmandel & Walton printed

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

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library