Printed on the plate
“Grey Plover”
Squatarola helvetica
Engraved caption: SQUATAROLA TELVETICA.
Modern identification
Pluvialis squatarola
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Plovers and Lapwings · Charadriidae
Why
Squatarola helvetica = Tringa squatarola Linn., Pluvialis squatarola, Black-bellied (Grey) Plover; the first of Gould's two Grey Plover plates.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 290
Who made the plate
J. Wolf & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter Imp.
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
