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Historical bird plates

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Audubon, The Birds of America
Gould, The Birds of Europe
Gould, The Birds of Australia
Gould, The Birds of Asia
Gould, The Birds of Great Britain

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Waxbills and Allies · Estrildidae · Passeriformes

Double-barred Finch

Stizoptera bichenovii

2 plates in 1 folio.

Australia, 1840–69Volume III, plate 80“Bicheno’s Finch”
Australia, 1840–69Volume III, plate 81“Black-rumped Finch”

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Every plate of five nineteenth-century bird folios, identified to modern species. The tables are CC0; the plates are in the public domain.

Gould scans: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Havell scans: courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Cite: Riley, W. Historical bird plates: modern identifications. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22964828