Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume V, plate 62

Turkestan Ground-Jay

Printed “Pander's Podoces”

Volume V, plate 62 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Turkestan Ground-Jay (Podoces panderi)
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Printed on the plate

“Pander's Podoces”

Podoces Panderi

Engraved caption: PODOCES PANDERI, Fischer

Modern identification

Turkestan Ground-Jay

Podoces panderi

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Crows, Jays, and Magpies · Corvidae

Why

Fischer's Podoces panderi (Kyzylkum) = Turkestan Ground-Jay: grey, black breast patch.

Sources

List of Plates (vol. V); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate

Who made the plate

J. Gould & W. Hart del et lithWalter, Imp.

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