Printed on the plate
“Red-naped Falcon”
Falco Babylonicus
Engraved caption: FALCO BABYLONICUS, Gurney
Modern identification
Falco peregrinus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Falco babylonicus Gurney, the red-naped shaheen of Afghanistan and NW India, is F. p. babylonicus, a Barbary-group race that eBird 2025 keeps in the Peregrine (group Red-capped); the plate shows the rufous crown and nape.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Wolf & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
