Printed on the plate
“Lead-coloured Falcon”
Falco concolor
Engraved caption: Lead-coloured Falcon Falco concolor (Temm.)
Modern identification
Falco concolor
- Certain
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Falco concolor Temm. is the Sooty Falcon, and the figure is one: uniform pale lead-grey with blackish primaries and no moustache, where a dark Eleonora's Falcon is sooty brown-black. Gould gives the Nile and Abyssinia; Sharpe cites the plate under F. concolor.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM i; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature & on stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Elizabeth Gould drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
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