Printed on the plate
“Eared Grebe”
Podiceps nigricollis
Engraved caption: PODICEPS NIGRICOLLIS.
Modern identification
Podiceps nigricollis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Grebes · Podicipedidae
Why
Podiceps nigricollis Brehm = Eared (Black-necked) Grebe; the plate has the black neck. Gould's synonymy cites Temminck's P. auritus, not Linnaeus's, the name that made Birds of Europe plate 391 a trap.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 391
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.
