Printed on the plate
“Ceylon Spur-Fowl”
Galloperdix Zeylonicus
Engraved caption: GALLOPERDIX ZEYLLONENSIS.
Modern identification
Galloperdix bicalcarata
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Gmelin's Tetrao zeylonensis (syn. Forster's Perdix bicalcaratus) = Sri Lanka Spurfowl, Galloperdix bicalcarata.
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 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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