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Historical bird plates

Folios

Audubon, The Birds of America
Gould, The Birds of Europe
Gould, The Birds of Australia
Gould, The Birds of Asia
Gould, The Birds of Great Britain

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl · Anatidae · Anseriformes

Surf Scoter

Melanitta perspicillata

3 plates in 3 folios.

Audubon, 1827–38Plate 317“Black, or Surf Duck”
Europe, 1832–37Plate 376“Surf Scoter”
Britain, 1862–73Volume V, plate 30“Surf Scoter”

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Every plate of five nineteenth-century bird folios, identified to modern species. The tables are CC0; the plates are in the public domain.

Gould scans: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Havell scans: courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Cite: Riley, W. Historical bird plates: modern identifications. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22964828