Printed on the plate
“Arctic Tern”
Sterna Arctica
Engraved caption: Arctic Tern Sterna Arctica (Temm.)
Modern identification
Sterna paradisaea
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
Why
Sterna Arctica Temm. = Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern); same species, older binomial
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. No credit line on the sheet: the paper below the caption is blank to the sheet's foot.
