Printed on the plate
“Cinereous Shearwater”
Puffinus cinereus
Engraved caption: Cinereous Shearwater Puffinus cinereus? (Steph.)
Modern identification
Figure upper
Printed “Cinereous Shearwater”
Ardenna gravis
- Judged
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
The upper figure is one of Strickland's Tees birds, smaller than Temminck's Cory's: a dark brown cap, white underparts, a dark (not yellow) bill and a pale uppertail patch. That is the Great Shearwater, and Dresser cites the figure under Puffinus major. Gould's description of yellow bill and ash-grey head is Temminck's Cory's.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Dresser, B. Eur. viii; the plate
Figure lower
Printed “Cinereous Shearwater”
Ardenna grisea
- Certain
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
The lower, all-sooty figure is Strickland's Puffinus fuliginosus from the Tees mouth, which Gould took for the young: a Sooty Shearwater. Dresser and Salvin cite this figure under P. griseus.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Dresser, B. Eur. viii; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xxv; 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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
