Printed on the plate
“Spoon-billed Sandpiper”
Eurinorhynchus pygmaeus
Engraved caption: EURINORDYNCHUS PYGMÆUS .
Modern identification
Calidris pygmaea
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Linnaeus's Platalea pygmaea = Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Calidris pygmaea; Kansas's Lady Amherst's Pheasant is a slip.
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 & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.