

Printed on the plate
“Tibetan Snow-Partridge”
Tetraogallus Tibetanus
Engraved caption: TETRAOGALUS TIBETANUS Coud
Modern identification
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
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Hullmandel & Walton printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.