Printed on the plate
“Broad-billed Prion”
Prion vittatus
Engraved caption: Prion vittatus
Modern identification
Pachyptila vittata
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
Broad-billed Prion by Forster's vittata, Gould's 'largest species of Prion' and the broad, swollen bill on the plate. eBird 2025 splits MacGillivray's Prion of Amsterdam and St Paul, the one place Gould saw the bird himself, and he names no figured specimen, so the call is judged rather than certain.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; the plate; Salvin, Cat. Birds BM xxv: 432
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.C. 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.