Printed on the plate
“Blue Reef Heron”
Herodias jugularis
Modern identification
Egretta sacra
- Certain
- A variant
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Forster's Ardea jugularis, Gould's Blue Reef Heron, is the dark morph of the Pacific Reef-Heron; the white morph is VI.61.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
Who made the plate
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