Printed on the plate
“Black-headed Gull”
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Engraved caption: CHROICOCEPALUS RDBUNDUS.
Modern identification
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
Why
Chroicocephalus ridibundus = Larus ridibundus Linn., the modern Black-headed Gull; the plate has its brown hood and red bill. Not the Mediterranean Gull that Gould's Birds of Europe gave this English name (plate 427).
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 425
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.
