Printed on the plate
“Zic-zac”
Pluvianus Aegyptius
Engraved caption: PLUVIANUS ÀGYPTIUS.
Modern identification
Pluvianus aegyptius
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Egyptian Plover · Pluvianidae
Why
Linnaeus's Charadrius aegyptius = Egyptian Plover.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Wolf, and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter Imp.
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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