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Historical bird plates

Folios

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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Plates / Species / Parrot Crossbill

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae · Passeriformes

Parrot Crossbill

Loxia pytyopsittacus

2 plates in 2 folios.

Europe, 1832–37Plate 201“Parrot Crossbill”
Britain, 1862–73Volume III, plate 46“Parrot Crossbill”

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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