Printed on the plate
“Chinese Crossoptilon”
Crossoptilon auritum
Engraved caption: CROSSOPTILON AURITUM.
Modern identification
Crossoptilon mantchuricum
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
The plate shows the Brown Eared-Pheasant: chocolate-brown body, white ear tufts and tail base. Gould used Pallas's auritum for the birds of the hills west of Peking, with Swinhoe's mantchuricum as its synonym; auritum is now the Blue Eared-Pheasant.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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