Printed on the plate
“Greenland Falcon (dark race)”
Falco candicans
Engraved caption: FALCO CANDICANS.
Modern identification
Falco rusticolus
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Gould's 'dark race' of the Greenland Falcon, which he says is too inconstant for two birds to match, is a darker Greenland Gyrfalcon, not a taxon of its own.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 19
Who made the plate
J. Wolf & W. Hart, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
