Printed on the plate
“Little Crake”
Zapornia pusilla
Engraved caption: Little Crake Zapornia pusilla (Steph.)
Modern identification
Zapornia parva
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae
Why
Gould's Little Crake (Stephens's pusilla) = Zapornia parva; his Baillon's is plate 344. Trap: modern Z. pusilla is Baillon's Crake
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.
- 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.
