Printed on the plate
“Grey Snipe”
Macroramphus griseus
Engraved caption: Grey Snipe Macrorhamphus Griseus (Leach.)
Modern identification
Limnodromus griseus
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Macrorhamphus griseus is the Short-billed Dowitcher by name. Gould's summer figure has discrete black spots on the foreneck and breast, not bars, and broad orange-buff fringes above: a Short-billed of the rufous-bellied hendersoni type, not the Long-billed of Great Britain IV.76. Long-billed was not yet separated, and the winter figure cannot be told apart.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk
Who made the plate
Drawn from Life & on Stone by J. & E. GouldPrinted by C. Hullmandel.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Elizabeth Gould drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
