Printed on the plate
“Mou-pin Snow-Partridge”
Tetraophasis obscurus
Engraved caption: TETRAOPHASIS OBSCURUS.
Modern identification
Chestnut-throated Monal-Partridge
Tetraophasis obscurus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
J. Verreaux's Lophophorus obscurus from Moupin = Chestnut-throated (Verreaux's) Monal-Partridge; the plate shows the chestnut throat.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue; the plate
Who made the plate
J. Gould & W. Hart del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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