Printed on the plate
“Great Shearwater”
Puffinus major
Engraved caption: PUFFINUS MAOR, Fab.
Modern identification
Ardenna gravis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
Puffinus major Faber = Ardenna gravis, Great Shearwater; the plate's dark cap, white half-collar and black bill are the Great's. Gould's range (Biscay, the Mediterranean, Madeira) mixes in Cory's Shearwater, but the bird figured is not one.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate
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.
