Printed on the plate
“Bar-tailed Godwit”
Limosa rufa
Engraved caption: Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa rufa (Briss.)
Modern identification
Limosa lapponica
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Bar-tailed Godwit
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: only the tops of their letters show.
