Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 286, volume IV

Eurasian Spoonbill

Printed “Spoonbill”

Plate 286 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
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Printed on the plate

“Spoonbill”

Platalea leucorodia

Engraved caption: Spoonbill Platalea Leucorodia (Linn.)

Modern identification

Eurasian Spoonbill

Platalea leucorodia

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Ibises and Spoonbills · Threskiornithidae

Why

Platalea leucorodia Linn. = Platalea leucorodia (Eurasian Spoonbill); same species

Sources

General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk

Who made the plate

Drawn from Life & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates