Printed on the plate
“Desmarest's Cormorant”
Phalacrocorax Desmarestii
Engraved caption: Desmarest's Cormorant Phalacrocorax Desmarestii
Modern identification
Gulosus aristotelis
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Phalacrocorax Desmarestii = Gulosus aristotelis, European Shag. Desmarest's Cormorant is the Mediterranean race, desmarestii.
Sources
General List (vol. I); crosswalk
Who made the plate
E. Lear del. et lith.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- Edward Lear drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
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