Printed on the plate
“Olivaceous Crake”
Porzana minuta
Engraved caption: PORZANA MINUTA.
Modern identification
Zapornia parva
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae
Why
Porzana minuta, Gould's 'Olivaceous Crake' = Rallus minutus Gmel. (parvus Scop.), Zapornia parva, Little Crake; the plate's male is plain grey below, barred only at the rear. Trap: modern Z. pusilla is Baillon's Crake (IV.89).
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 345
Who made the plate
J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et. lith.Walter & 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.
