Printed on the plate
“Greenland Falcon”
Falco candicans
Engraved caption: FALCO CANDICANS, J.F.Gmel.
Modern identification
Falco rusticolus
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Gould's Falco candicans, the white 'light race' of the Greenland Falcon (adult and young), is the white morph of the Gyrfalcon.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 19
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.
