Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VII, plate 39

Short-tailed Albatross

Printed “Short-tailed Albatros”

Volume VII, plate 39 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus)
Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Short-tailed Albatros”

Diomedea brachyura

Modern identification

Short-tailed Albatross

Phoebastria albatrus

  • Certain
  • Albatrosses · Diomedeidae

Why

brachyura = Short-tailed Albatross; not in BirdNET

Sources

List of Plates (vol. VII); 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.