Printed on the plate
“Black-bellied Storm Petrel”
Thalassidroma melanogaster
Engraved caption: Thalassidroma melanogaster
Modern identification
Fregetta tropica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Southern Storm-Petrels · Oceanitidae
Why
melanogaster = Black-bellied Storm-Petrel; not in BirdNET
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 at the sheet's foot: of the left one only the lower part of its letters shows, under a line in the paper, unreadable; the paper right of the caption is blank.