Printed on the plate
“Barred Owl”
Ulula nebulosa
Engraved caption: Barred Owl Strix nebulosa (Linn.); Ulula ___ (Cuv.)
Modern identification
Strix varia
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Owls · Strigidae
Why
Strix nebulosa Forster (as Gould/Cuvier used it) = the American Barred Owl, today Strix varia; the Great Grey Owl is his separate plate 42. Trap: modern Strix nebulosa is the Great Grey
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk
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.
