Printed on the plate
“Great Crested Grebe”
Podiceps cristatus
Engraved caption: PODICEPS CRISTATUS, LiH.
Modern identification
Podiceps cristatus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Grebes · Podicipedidae
Why
Podiceps cristatus = Colymbus cristatus Linn., Great Crested Grebe; same species.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 388
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.
