Printed on the plate
“Lanner Falcon”
Falco Lanarius
Engraved caption: Lanner Falcon Falco lanarius (Linn.)
The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Lanner Falcon.
Modern identification
Falco cherrug
- Certain
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Gould's Falco lanarius (Pallas's and Temminck's sense) is the Saker: he lists this plate under Falco sacer in his own synonymy (Birds of Asia I.5), as do Dresser and Sharpe. The figures agree: brown back with no grey, pale streaked crown, thin moustache, tail spotted not barred.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Gould, B. Asia I.5 synonymy; Dresser, B. Eur. vi; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM i; the plate
Who made the plate
E. Lear del et lith.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- Edward Lear drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
