Printed on the plate
“Northern Puffin”
Mormon glacialis
Engraved caption: Northern Puffin Mormon glacialis (Leach)
Modern identification
Fratercula corniculata
- Certain
- Auks, Murres, and Puffins · Alcidae
Why
Gould's Mormon glacialis has a uniformly orange bill with no grey basal plate or coloured bands (compare plate 403) and long dark horns over the eyes, and some of his specimens came from Kamchatka: a Horned Puffin. Ogilvie-Grant cites this plate under Fratercula corniculata.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds BM xxvi; the plate
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.
