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Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume IV, plate 61

Ruff

Volume IV, plate 61 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Ruff (Calidris pugnax) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume IV, plate 61, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Ruff”

Machetes pugnax

Engraved caption: MACHETES PUGNAX.

Modern identification

Calidris pugnax

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

Machetes pugnax Cuv. = Tringa pugnax Linn., Calidris pugnax, Ruff; same species.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 325

Who made the plate

J. Gould & 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.

The scan at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The same bird on other plates