Printed on the plate
“Spotted Eagle”
Aquila nævia
Engraved caption: Spotted Eagle Aquila naevia (Meyer)
Modern identification
Clanga clanga
- Judged
- Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae
Why
A young Greater Spotted Eagle: uniformly blackish-brown with rows of large white drops on the scapulars, median and greater coverts and no buff nape patch; a young Lesser is paler brown with a buff nape and one row of small spots. Meyer's naevia covered both, and Dresser cites the plate under both clanga and pomarina, so the figure decides.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; the plate; Dresser, B. Eur. v; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM i
Who made the plate
E. Lear del.Printed by C. Hullmandel.
- Edward Lear drew
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
