“Whistling Sand-Grouse” (Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse) · Gould, The Birds of Asia, volume VI, plate 64

Volume VI, plate 64 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The whole sheet of volume VI, plate 64, with its engraved caption — Full resolutionSmithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Printed on the plate

“Whistling Sand-Grouse”

Pterocles exustus

Engraved caption: PTEROCLES EXUSTUS:Temm:

Modern identification

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Pterocles exustus

Certain
Checked against the engraved caption
Sandgrouse · Pteroclidae

Why

Temminck's Pterocles exustus, Gould's Indian Whistling Sand-Grouse = Chestnut-bellied 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)

eBird
Wikidata
GBIF
Avibase

Who made the plate

J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton Imp.

John Gould drew and lithographed
Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
Hullmandel & Walton printed

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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