Printed on the plate
“Lineated Pheasant”
Euplocamus lineatus
Engraved caption: EUPLOCAMUS LINEATUS.
Modern identification
Lophura leucomelanos
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Euplocamus lineatus Vigors is the Lineated Kalij, Lophura leucomelanos lineata, which Clements keeps in Kalij Pheasant; the plate shows the pencilled grey male with the dark legs Gould uses to separate it from the Silver Pheasant.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; 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
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