Printed on the plate
“Rock Ptarmigan”
Lagopus rupestris
Engraved caption: Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus rupestris (Leach.)
Modern identification
Lagopus muta
- Certain
- A variant
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
Gould's 'Lagopus rupestris' is a Scottish bird from the Earl of Derby's collection that Gould himself suspected was a female Common Ptarmigan in summer dress; Ogilvie-Grant puts the plate under Lagopus mutus, not the American rupestris. Rock Ptarmigan, female summer plumage.
Sources
General List (vol. I); crosswalk
Who made the plate
E. Lear del. et lith.Printed by C. Hullmandel
- Edward Lear drew and lithographed
- Charles Joseph Hullmandel printed
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
