Printed on the plate
“Plumed Partridge and Thick-legged Partridge”
Plumed-Partridge, 2. Male. 3. Female. | Thick-legged Partridge, 1. Supposed Young Male.
Modern identification
Figure 1. Supposed Young Male.
Printed “Thick-legged Partridge”
Colinus cristatus
- Certain
- New World Quail · Odontophoridae
Why
Audubon's “Thick-legged Partridge” (Perdix neoxenus, fig. 1), drawn from a Zoological Society of London skin credited to Beechey's voyage to the north-west coast, is today's Crested Bobwhite: Ogilvie-Grant lists Vigors's Ortyx neoxenus and this plate under it, and NYHS agrees
Sources
engraved legend; Audubon, Ornithological Biography v (1839); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxii (1893); New-York Historical Society
Figure 2. Male. 3. Female.
Printed “Plumed-Partridge”
Oreortyx pictus
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- New World Quail · Odontophoridae
Why
Audubon's “Plumed Partridge” (Perdix plumifera, figs. 2–3) is today's Mountain Quail
Sources
engraved title; Featherframe havell.yaml; audubon.org; New-York Historical Society; Wikimedia Commons; Boston Public Library (Digital Commonwealth)
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature. by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved. Printed and Coloured by Robt Havell, 1838.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
