Printed on the plate
“Himalayan Snow-Partridge”
Tetraogallus Himalayensis
Engraved caption: TETRAOGALLUS HIMALAYENSIS, G.R. Gray
Modern identification
Tetraogallus himalayensis
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
G. R. Gray's Tetraogallus himalayensis = Himalayan Snowcock: chestnut neck stripes, black-and-white scaled chest.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: only the tops of their letters show; the lines are cut through the x-height at the sheet's foot and the lower-case letters between the tall strokes are blobs on the scan.