Printed on the plate
“Masked Gannet”
Sula personata
Engraved caption: Sula personata
Modern identification
Sula dactylatra
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Boobies and Gannets · Sulidae
Why
Gould's Sula personata is the Australian and western Pacific race of Masked Booby, S. d. personata.
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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