Printed on the plate
“Assam Peacock Pheasant”
Polyplectron chinquis
Engraved caption: POLYPECTRON CHNOUIS .
Modern identification
Polyplectron bicalcaratum
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Polyplectron chinquis Temminck, Gould's Assam and Sylhet peacock-pheasant, is a synonym of P. bicalcaratum, the Gray Peacock-Pheasant (Gould kept bicalcaratum for the Malayan bird, VII.51), so no form.
Sources
List of Plates; engraved caption; Gould's text; Kansas catalogue
Who made the plate
J. Gould & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.
- John Gould drew and lithographed
- Henry Constantine Richter drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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