Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VII, plate 79

Red-footed Booby

Printed “Red-legged Gannet”

Volume VII, plate 79 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)
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Printed on the plate

“Red-legged Gannet”

Sula piscator

Engraved caption: Sula fiber / piscator

Modern identification

Red-footed Booby

Sula sula

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

Why

piscator = Red-footed 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.

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