Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VII, plate 78

Brown Booby

Printed “Brown Gannet”

Volume VII, plate 78 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
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Printed on the plate

“Brown Gannet”

Sula fusca

Engraved caption: Sula fusca

Modern identification

Brown Booby

Sula leucogaster

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Boobies and Gannets · Sulidae

Why

fusca = Brown Booby

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.

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

The same bird on other plates