Description
Top image 1.
Modern common name Pink Robin
Selby binomial name or protonym Musciapa Lathami
Modern binomial name Petroica rodinogaster
First described Drapiez 1819
Distribution SA, VIC, TAS & NSW
Reference Readers Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 385, ill.385
Lower image 2, the first printed illustration of the Red-Capped Robin.
Modern common name Red-Capped Robin
Selby binomial name or protonym Musciapa goodenovii
Modern binomial name Petroica goodenovii
First described Vigors & Horsefield 1827
Distribution Mainland Australia
Reference Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: p.386, ill.386
From Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867) Illustrations of Ornithology.
