Printed on the plate
“Australian Cormorant”
Phalacrocorax carboides
Engraved caption: Phalacrocorax carboides
Modern identification
Phalacrocorax carbo
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Gould's Phalacrocorax carboides is the Australasian race of Great Cormorant, P. c. novaehollandiae.
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
Hullmandel & Walton Imp
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
