Printed on the plate
“Manx Shearwater”
Puffinus anglorum
Engraved caption: PUFFINUS ANGLORUM.
Modern identification
Puffinus puffinus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
Puffinus anglorum = Procellaria puffinus Bruenn., Puffinus puffinus, Manx Shearwater; same species.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Birds of Europe plate 443
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.
