Printed on the plate
“Wandering Albatros”
Diomedea exulans
Engraved caption: Diomedea exulans
Modern identification
Diomedea exulans
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Albatrosses · Diomedeidae
Why
Gould's Diomedea exulans is the Snowy Albatross, the daughter that keeps exulans in eBird 2025's Wandering Albatross split: the adult is white with a white back, and Gould shot his adults in the Indian Ocean and south of Tasmania.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); 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 lithC. Hullmandel Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.