Printed on the plate
“Great Snipe”
Gallinago major
Engraved caption: GALLINAGO MAJOR.
Modern identification
Gallinago media
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Gallinago major = Scolopax major Gmel. (media Frisch), Gallinago media, Great Snipe; same species.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 320
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter. del. et lithWalter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
