Printed on the plate
“Red Grouse”
Lagopus scoticus
Engraved caption: LAGOPUS SCOTICUS.
Modern identification
Lagopus scotica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Lagopus scoticus Lath. = Red Grouse, Lagopus scotica, which eBird 2025 splits from Willow Ptarmigan; BirdNET still lumps it in Willow Ptarmigan.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 252
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: only the tops of their letters show.
