Printed on the plate
“Hyacinthine Porphyrio”
Porphyrio hyacinthinus
Engraved caption: Hyacinthine Porphyrio Porphyrio hyacinthinus (Temm.)
Modern identification
Porphyrio porphyrio
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae
Why
Porphyrio hyacinthinus Temm. = the Mediterranean purple swamphen, now Western Swamphen after the split
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: the sheet ends in the caption.