Printed on the plate
“Rufescent Curlew”
Numenius rufescens
Engraved caption: NUMENIUS RUFESCENS, Gould
Modern identification
Numenius madagascariensis
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
rufescens Gould is the Far Eastern Curlew; the survey read Eurasian
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
