Printed on the plate
“Roseate Tern”
Sterna paradisea
Engraved caption: STERNA PARADISEA, Brünn.
Modern identification
Sterna dougallii
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
Why
Sterna paradisea Bruenn. (dougallii Mont.) = Sterna dougallii, Roseate Tern; the plate's rosy-breasted, dark-billed terns with long white streamers are Roseates. Trap: modern S. paradisaea is the Arctic Tern (V.72).
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 418
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
