Printed on the plate
“Short-toed Ptarmigan”
Lagopus brachydactylus
Engraved caption: Short-toed Ptarmigan Lagopus brachydactylus; Tetrao ... (Temm.)
Modern identification
Lagopus lagopus
- Certain
- Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae
Why
The plate is drawn from Temminck's unique Lagopus brachydactylus, lent to Gould, and that specimen survives as the holotype in Naturalis, Leiden (RMNH.AVES.226893, from northern Russia via Feldegg), whose type catalogue identifies it as Lagopus lagopus. It is a winter Willow Ptarmigan, as Ogilvie-Grant also judged.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; van der Mije, Kamminga & Dekker 2023, ZooKeys 1155: 21; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds BM xxii; the plate
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off at the sheet's foot: only the tops of a few letters show.
