Engraved printing plate "Pleiodus strigirostris"
National Museum of American History

Engraved printing plate "Pleiodus strigirostris"

Wilkes, Charles · 1858

metal, copper (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This engraved printing plate was prepared to print an image of "Pleiodus strigirostris" (now Didunculus strigirostris - Tooth-billed Pigeon or Samoan Pigeon) for the publication "United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842," Volume 8, Mammalogy and Ornithology, plate 34, in the edition Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. The engraving was produced by W. H. Dougal after T. R. Peale.

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