Printed on the plate
“Nutcracker (young)”
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 young of III.65.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 213
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
