Printed on the plate
“Green Sandpiper”
Totanus ochropus
Engraved caption: TOTANUS OCHROPUS.
Modern identification
Tringa ochropus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Totanus ochropus = Tringa ochropus Linn., Green Sandpiper; same species.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 315
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter, 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.
