Printed on the plate
“Black-tailed Gannet”
Sula melanura
Engraved caption: Black-tailed Gannet Sula melanura (Temm.)
Modern identification
Morus bassanus
- Judged
- A variant
- Boobies and Gannets · Sulidae
Why
Temminck's melanura was killed in Iceland and, Gould says, is a Solan Gannet in every respect but its black tail: a near-adult or aberrant Northern Gannet, not the Cape Gannet. Ogilvie-Grant puts the plate in Sula bassana. The figure's gular stripe is short. The folded wing hides the secondaries, which are all black in a Cape Gannet.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xxvi; the plate
Who made the plate
E. Lear del et lith.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- Edward Lear drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
