Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Australia · Volume VII, plate 80

Great Crested Grebe

Printed “Australian Tippet Grebe”

Volume VII, plate 80 of Gould's The Birds of Australia: Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
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Printed on the plate

“Australian Tippet Grebe”

Podiceps australis

Engraved caption: Podiceps australis

Modern identification

Great Crested Grebe

Podiceps cristatus

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Grebes · Podicipedidae

Why

Gould's Podiceps australis is the Australasian race of Great Crested Grebe, P. c. australis.

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.C. Hullmandel Imp.

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

The same bird on other plates