Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 435, volume V

Black-legged Kittiwake

Printed “Kittiwake Gull”

Plate 435 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
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Printed on the plate

“Kittiwake Gull”

Larus Rissa

Engraved caption: Kittiwake Gull Larus Rissa (Linn.)

Modern identification

Black-legged Kittiwake

Rissa tridactyla

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae

Why

Kittiwake

Sources

General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates