Printed on the plate
“Wedge-tailed Petrel”
Puffinus sphenurus
Engraved caption: Puffinus sphenurus
Modern identification
Ardenna pacifica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
sphenurus = Wedge-tailed Shearwater
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 lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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