Printed on the plate
“Black Cormorant”
Phalacrocorax Graculus
Engraved caption: Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax graculus (Meyer)
Modern identification
Nannopterum brasilianum
- Certain
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
The figure is a Neotropic Cormorant in breeding dress: an orange-yellow gular pouch edged with a thin white line, white filoplumes on the head and neck, and a long tail. Gould's text adds lanceolate scapulars and Temminck's view that Brazilian birds are the same. Temminck lent the specimen. Ogilvie-Grant (Cat. Birds BM xxvi) puts the plate in P. vigua. Linnaeus's graculus is the Shag.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Sharpe, 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
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