Printed on the plate
“Cautious Albatros”
Diomedea cauta
Engraved caption: Diomedea cauta
Modern identification
Thalassarche cauta
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Albatrosses · Diomedeidae
Why
Diomedea cauta Gould, shot in Recherche Bay, Tasmania, is the Shy Albatross, the nominate race of what eBird 2025 calls White-capped Albatross.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; crosswalk
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off: the sheet ends in the caption, itself cut.