Printed on the plate
“Nutcracker”
Nucifraga caryocatactes
Engraved caption: NUCIFRAGA CARYOCATACTES.
Modern identification
Nucifraga caryocatactes
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae
Why
Nucifraga caryocatactes = Northern Nutcracker, the European bird, since eBird splits the Southern and Kashmir Nutcrackers.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 213; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del et lithWalter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
