Printed on the plate
“White Reef Heron”
Herodias Greyi
Engraved caption: Herodias Greyi
Modern identification
Egretta sacra
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Gray's Herodias greyi, the White Reef Heron, is the white morph of the Pacific Reef-Heron, as Gould himself suspected.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk; pinned in Featherframe (gould_australia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lithHullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
