Printed on the plate
“Malayan Peacock Pheasant”
Polyplectron bicalcaratum
Engraved caption: POLYPLECTRON BICALCARATUM.
Modern identification
Polyplectron malacense
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Gould uses bicalcaratum, after Blyth, for 'the Malayan bird' from Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, smaller and browner than his chinquis (VII.50, the Gray Peacock-Pheasant), with larger ocelli and a greenish-blue crest. His synonymy includes Scopoli's malaccensis. The plate's crested brown male is the Malayan Peacock-Pheasant.
Sources
List of Plates (vol. VII); engraved caption on the leaf; the text leaf bound after the plate; Kansas catalogue; the plate
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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