Printed on the plate
“Altaic Snow-Partridge”
Tetraogallus Altaicus
Engraved caption: TETRAOGALLUS ALTAICUS.
Modern identification
Tetraogallus altaicus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Gebler's Perdix altaica = Altai Snowcock: white flanks, black lower belly.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Wolf and H. C. Richter del et lithHullmandel & Walton, Imp
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
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