Printed on the plate
“Banded Sand-Grouse”
Pterocles fasciatus
Engraved caption: PTEROCLES FASCIATUS.
Modern identification
Pterocles indicus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Sandgrouse · Pteroclidae
Why
Gould's Pterocles fasciatus (syn. Tetrao indicus Gmelin, P. quadricinctus Sykes) is the Indian bird, the Painted Sandgrouse.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VI); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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
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