Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VII, plate 56

Short-tailed Shearwater

Printed “Short-tailed Petrel”

Volume VII, plate 56 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
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Printed on the plate

“Short-tailed Petrel”

Puffinus brevicaudus

Engraved caption: Puffinus brevicaudus

Modern identification

Short-tailed Shearwater

Ardenna tenuirostris

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae

Why

brevicaudus = Short-tailed Shearwater

Sources

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

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.

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