Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 15, volume I

Rough-legged Hawk

Printed “Rough-legged Buzzard”

Plate 15 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus)
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Printed on the plate

“Rough-legged Buzzard”

Buteo Lagopus

Engraved caption: Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo Lagopus (Flem.)

Modern identification

Rough-legged Hawk

Buteo lagopus

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae

Why

Rough-legged Buzzard; BirdNET calls it Rough-legged Hawk

Sources

General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk

Who made the plate

E. Lear del et lith.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates