Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VI, plate 68

Red Spurfowl

Printed “Rufous Spur-Fowl”

Volume VI, plate 68 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Red Spurfowl (Galloperdix spadicea)
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Printed on the plate

“Rufous Spur-Fowl”

Galloperdix spadiceus

Engraved caption: CALLLOPERDIX SPADICEUS.

Modern identification

Red Spurfowl

Galloperdix spadicea

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae

Why

Gmelin's Tetrao spadiceus = Red Spurfowl, Galloperdix spadicea.

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

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