Printed on the plate
“Spotted Eagle”
Aquila nævia
Engraved caption: AQUILA NAVIA.
Modern identification
Clanga clanga
- Judged
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae
Why
Gould's Aquila naevia lumps both spotted eagles (pomarina is in his synonymy). The young bird, drawn after the Cornwall birds of 1860–61, is blackish with rows of large pale drops across all the wing coverts and no pale nape: a juvenile Greater Spotted Eagle, not the Lesser.
Sources
engraved caption; Gould's text; 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.
