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Audubon, The Birds of America
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Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies · Phasianidae · Galliformes

Koklass Pheasant

Pucrasia macrolopha

5 plates in 1 folio.

Asia, 1850–83Volume VII, plate 24“Chinese Pucras Pheasant”
Asia, 1850–83Volume VII, plate 25“Darwin's Pucras Pheasant”
Asia, 1850–83Volume VII, plate 26“Himalayan Pucras Pheasant”
Asia, 1850–83Volume VII, plate 27“Kafiristan Pucras Pheasant”
Asia, 1850–83Volume VII, plate 28“Nepaul Pucras Pheasant”

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Every plate of five nineteenth-century bird folios, identified to modern species. The tables are CC0; the plates are in the public domain.

Gould scans: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Havell scans: courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Cite: Riley, W. Historical bird plates: modern identifications. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22964828