Printed on the plate
“Lanner Falcon”
Falco lamas
Engraved caption: FALCO LANARIUS .
Modern identification
Falco biarmicus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Gould's Falco lanarius (syn. Feldeggii Schlegel; the List misprints it lamas) = Falco biarmicus, Lanner Falcon: rufous crown, slate back, spotted buff breast. The lanarius of Pallas and Temminck was the Saker, which Gould figures at I.5.
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.