Printed on the plate
“Pied Cormorant”
Phalacrocorax melanoleucus
Engraved caption: Phalacrocorax melanoleucus
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Pied Cormorant.
Modern identification
Microcarbo melanoleucos
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Little Pied Cormorant; 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: the sheet ends in the caption, itself cut.