Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 19, volume I

Gyrfalcon

Printed “Jer Falcon”

Plate 19 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
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Printed on the plate

“Jer Falcon”

Falco Islandicus

Engraved caption: Jer Falcon Falco Islandicus (Lath.)

Modern identification

Gyrfalcon

Falco rusticolus

  • Certain
  • A variant
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae

Why

Iceland Falcon (F. islandicus) is a pale form of the Gyrfalcon, F. rusticolus

Sources

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

Who made the plate

Drawn from Life & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

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

The same bird on other plates