Printed on the plate
“Fasciated Hemipode”
Turnix fasciatus
Engraved caption: TURNIX FASCIATUS.
Modern identification
Turnix suscitator
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Buttonquail · Turnicidae
Why
Hemipodius fasciatus Temminck, from the Philippines, is T. suscitator fasciatus, a race of Barred Buttonquail; Gould's figures are Wallace's Macassar birds, of the Sulawesi race rufilatus.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
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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