Printed on the plate
“Argus Pheasant”
Argusianus argus
Engraved caption: ARGUSIANUS ARGUS.
Modern identification
Argusianus argus
- Certain
- Checked against the engraved caption
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Linnaeus's Phasianus argus = Great Argus, Argusianus argus.
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
W. Hart del. et lith.Walter Imp.
- William Matthew Hart drew and lithographed
- Walter printed
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