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Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume V, plate 15

Mallard

Printed “Mallard, or Wild Duck”

Volume V, plate 15 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume V, plate 15, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Mallard, or Wild Duck”

Anas boschas

Engraved caption: ANAS BOSCHAS, Lim.

Modern identification

Anas platyrhynchos

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl · Anatidae

Why

Anas boschas Linn. = Anas platyrhynchos, Mallard; same species.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 361

Who made the plate

J. Wolf & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

Joseph Wolf 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