Printed on the plate
“Kurile Guillemot”
Uria Carbo
Engraved caption: URIA CARBO.
Modern identification
Cepphus carbo
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Auks, Murres, and Puffins · Alcidae
Why
Pallas's Cepphus carbo = Spectacled Guillemot.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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