Printed on the plate
“Cook's Petrel”
Procellaria Cookii
Engraved caption: Procellaria Cookii
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Cook's Petrel.
Modern identification
Pterodroma leucoptera
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
Not Cook's Petrel. Gould's specimens came from 'a small island near the mouth of Port Stephens' (Cabbage Tree Island, the only colony of Gould's Petrel), and he synonymises his own Procellaria leucoptera. The plate shows a dark slaty hood on white underparts beside cabbage-tree palms; Cook's Petrel has a pale grey head.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text and synonymy; the plate
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.