Oriolus Viridis.

Folio (14" x 21"), colored lithographed bird plate. Small chips and tears in lower corners and right margins, slight browning and aging; overall bright and colorful. John Gould (1804-1881) was born in Dorset, and spent his early career years as a taxidermist. By the late 1820s he entered the publishing business, and privately published his first publication that included folio sized bird plates (A Century of Birds Hitherto Unfigured from the Himalaya Mountains). The work appeared in twenty monthly installments. This work launched a fifty-year career that would pretty much use the same format for his future publications. This plate is probably plate number 13 from the Birds of Australia. ODB. Gould's Works on Natural History: Index.