Printed on the plate
“Argoondah Bush-Quail”
Perdicula Argoondah
Engraved caption: PERDICULA ARGOONDAH.
Modern identification
Perdicula argoondah
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Sykes's Coturnix argoondah = Rock Bush-Quail, Perdicula argoondah.
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. Gould and H. C. Richter, del. et lith.Walter & Cohn, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter & Cohn printed
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