Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Asia · Volume VII, plate 32

Tibetan Snowcock

Printed “Tibetan Snow-Partridge”

Volume VII, plate 32 of Gould's The Birds of Asia: Tibetan Snowcock (Tetraogallus tibetanus)
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Printed on the plate

“Tibetan Snow-Partridge”

Tetraogallus Tibetanus

Engraved caption: TETRAOGALUS TIBETANUS Coud

Modern identification

Tibetan Snowcock

Tetraogallus tibetanus

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

Why

Gould's own Tetraogallus tibetanus, from Strachey's Ladakh and Hodgson's Nepal skins = Tibetan Snowcock; same name today.

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. Wolf and H. C. Richter, del et lithHullmandel & Walton, Imp

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.