Printed on the plate
“Chestnut-tailed Lobed Pheasant”
Lobiophasis castaneicaudatus
Engraved caption: LOBIOPRASIS CASTANEICAUDATUS, Sharpe
Modern identification
Lophura bulweri
- Certain
- A variant
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Sharpe's Lobiophasis castaneicaudatus, from the same river as Bulwer's, is the immature male of Bulwer's Pheasant, as Sharpe suspected: blue facial wattles, maroon neck, chestnut tail.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
