Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 290, volume IV

Black-bellied Plover

Printed “Grey Plover”

Plate 290 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
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Printed on the plate

“Grey Plover”

Squatarola cinerea

Engraved caption: Bastard or Grey Plover Squatarola cinerea (Gm.)

Modern identification

Black-bellied Plover

Pluvialis squatarola

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Plovers and Lapwings · Charadriidae

Why

Grey Plover

Sources

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

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & 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