Printed on the plate
“Common Pheasant”
Phasianus colchicus
Engraved caption: PHASIANUS COLCHICUS, Linn.
Modern identification
Phasianus colchicus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Linnaeus's Phasianus colchicus, figured from birds killed in Asia Minor = Ring-necked Pheasant, the ringless nominate race of the Black Sea and Caucasus (the ringed Chinese torquatus is VII.39).
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Wolf & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp
- Joseph Wolf drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
