Printed on the plate
“Saker Falcon”
Falco sacer
Engraved caption: FALCO SACER.
Modern identification
Falco cherrug
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Falco sacer Gmelin = Falco cherrug, Saker Falcon: pale head, brown upperparts, streaked underparts; Gould keeps it apart from the Lanner (I.6).
Sources
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.
