Printed on the plate
“Water-Ouzel, or Dipper”
Cinclus aquaticus
Engraved caption: CINCLUS AQUATICUS.
Modern identification
Cinclus cinclus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Dippers · Cinclidae
Why
Cinclus aquaticus Bechst. = White-throated Dipper, Cinclus cinclus; the plate's white-breasted, chestnut-bellied British bird is the race C. c. gularis (Bechstein's aquaticus is the central European race), set against the black-bellied nominate of II.42.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 83
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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