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Historical bird plate: Yellow-breasted Boatbill

Mathews · 1910-1927

Yellow-breasted Boatbill

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Plate 407: Machaerirhynchus flaviventer & Seisura Vigors & Seisura inquieta

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01Yellow-breasted Boatbill
Several species on one plate

This plate depicts more than one taxon. Each bird is traced separately so that one identification is not made to stand for the whole artwork.

Name recorded with the platemachaerirhynchus flaviventer
Name used todayMachaerirhynchus flaviventerYellow-breasted Boatbill

What connects the names

The plate depicts several named birds. This identification is traced separately from the other birds in the artwork.

High confidence: The source identification and present taxonomy connect directly through the cited evidence.

The bird today

Follow the accepted taxon into present-day biodiversity records, observations and sound identification.

Publication
The Birds of Australia, Volume 9
Plate
9
Creator
Gregory M. Mathews; plates by J. G. Keulemans, Henrik Grönvold, H. Goodchild, G. E. Lodge and Roland Green
Holding institution
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Taxonomic authority
AviList 2025
Rights
Public domain. The BHL considers that this work is no longer under copyright protection.