Printed on the plate
“Spotted Redshank”
Totanus fuscus
Engraved caption: TOTANTS FUSCUS .
Modern identification
Tringa erythropus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Totanus fuscus = Scolopax fusca Linn., Tringa erythropus, Spotted Redshank; same species.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 309
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off: the sheet ends in the caption.
