Printed on the plate
“Bass's Straits Tern”
Thalasseus poliocercus
Engraved caption: Thalasseus poliocercus
Modern identification
Thalasseus bergii
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
Why
Gould's Thalasseus poliocercus, the Bass's Straits Tern, is the southern Australian Great Crested Tern, race T. b. cristatus.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
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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