Printed on the plate
“Thick-billed Green Bittern”
Ardetta macrorhyncha
Engraved caption: Ardetta macrorhyncha
Modern identification
Butorides striata
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Gould's Ardetta macrorhyncha is the east Australian race of Striated Heron, B. s. macrorhyncha.
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 lith.Hullmandel & 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.
