Printed on the plate
“White-breasted Cormorant”
Phalacrocorax leucogaster
Modern identification
Phalacrocorax fuscescens
- Certain
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
leucogaster Gould is the Black-faced Cormorant, abundant round Tasmania with seaweed nests on Bass Strait rocks. Gould describes a black bill and feet with no yellow facial skin, and the plate shows black faces; the Pied Cormorant has a yellow-orange face.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); Gould's text and synonymy; the plate
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off: the sheet ends in the caption, itself cut.