Printed on the plate
“Ruff and Reeve in first-autumn plumage”
Machetes pugnax
Engraved caption: MACHETES PUGNAX.
Modern identification
Calidris pugnax
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Machetes pugnax, Ruff and Reeve in first-autumn plumage = Ruff; the second of Gould's plates of this bird; the text is with plate IV.61.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text (with plate IV.61); the plate; Birds of Europe plate 325
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: only the tops of a few of the right one's letters show.
