Printed on the plate
“Wattled Pewit”
Lobivanellus lobatus
Modern identification
Vanellus miles
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Plovers and Lapwings · Charadriidae
Why
Gould's Lobivanellus lobatus (Latham's Tringa lobata) is the southern, black-shouldered Masked Lapwing, the race V. m. novaehollandiae.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off: the sheet ends in the caption, itself cut.
