Printed on the plate
“Arctic Skua”
Stercorarius parasiticus
Engraved caption: STERCORARIOS PARASITICUS.
Modern identification
Stercorarius parasiticus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Skuas and Jaegers · Stercorariidae
Why
Stercorarius parasiticus = Larus parasiticus Linn. (Richardson's Skua), Parasitic Jaeger (Arctic Skua); dark and pale birds on the plate. Here Gould uses the name as eBird does; Temminck's Lestris parasiticus, the Long-tailed Skua, sits in V.81's synonymy.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 441
Who made the plate
J. Gould, and 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.
