Printed on the plate
“Himalayan Pucras Pheasant”
Pucrasia macrolopha
Engraved caption: PUCRASIA MACROLOPHA.
Modern identification
Pucrasia macrolopha
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Lesson's Satyra macrolopha = Koklass Pheasant, nominate race (the other races are VII.24, 25, 27 and 28).
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; pinned in Featherframe (gould_asia.yaml)
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
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
