Printed on the plate
“Horned Grebe”
Podiceps auritus
Engraved caption: PODICEPS AURITUS.
Modern identification
Podiceps auritus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Grebes · Podicipedidae
Why
Podiceps auritus = Colymbus auritus Linn. (cornutus Temm.), Horned (Slavonian) Grebe; the plate has its golden horns and chestnut neck. The Bearded Tit on the bulrush is an accompaniment named in the text, not given a row.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 390
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: the left corner ends in the caption, the right in the tops of a credit line's letters.
