Printed on the plate
“Vieillot's Fireback”
Euplocamus Vieilloti
Engraved caption: ETPLOCOMUS VIEILLOTI, GRGaY.
Modern identification
Lophura rufa
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Gray's Euplocomus vieilloti of Malacca and Sumatra, which Gould separates from the chestnut-bellied ignitus, is the Malayan Crested Fireback: white-streaked flanks, white central tail. eBird 2025 splits it from the Bornean.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Wolf and H. C. Richter, del et lith.Hullmandel & Walton. Imp.
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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