Printed on the plate
“Common Night Heron”
Nycticorax Europæus
Engraved caption: Common Night Heron Nycticorax Europaeus (Stephens)
Modern identification
Nycticorax nycticorax
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Nycticorax Europæus Steph. = Nycticorax nycticorax (Black-crowned Night-Heron); same species, older binomial
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk
Who made the plate
E. Lear del et lith.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- Edward Lear drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
