Printed on the plate
“Pied Egret”
Herodias picata
Modern identification
Egretta picata
- Certain
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Pied Heron; not in BirdNET
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: only the tops of a few letters show.