Skip to content

Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume I, plate 34

Snowy Owl

Volume I, plate 34 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume I, plate 34, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Snowy Owl”

Nyctea nivea

Engraved caption: NYCTEA NIVEA.

Modern identification

Bubo scandiacus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Owls · Strigidae

Why

Nyctea nivea = Snowy Owl, Bubo scandiacus; same species, older name.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 43

Who made the plate

J. Wolf and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Walter & Cohn printed

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The same bird on other plates