Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VII, plate 3

Painted Bush-Quail

Printed “Little Red-billed Partridge”

Volume VII, plate 3 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Painted Bush-Quail (Perdicula erythrorhyncha)
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Printed on the plate

“Little Red-billed Partridge”

Microperdix erythrorhyncha

Engraved caption: MICROPERDIX ERYTHRORHYNCHA.

Modern identification

Painted Bush-Quail

Perdicula erythrorhyncha

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae

Why

Sykes's Coturnix erythrorhyncha = Painted Bush-Quail, Perdicula erythrorhyncha: red bill, black-and-white face, spotted chestnut underparts.

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.Walter & Cohn, Imp.

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