Printed on the plate
“Pallas's Sand-Grouse”
Syrrhaptes paradoxus
Engraved caption: SYRRHAPTES PARADOXUS.
Modern identification
Syrrhaptes paradoxus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandgrouse · Pteroclidae
Why
Pallas's Tetrao paradoxus = Pallas's Sandgrouse; same name today.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
