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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Smithsonian Libraries, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen
- Author(s):
- Fitzinger, Leopold Joseph Franz Johann
- Publisher:
- Vienna: k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1864
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A male gray peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum) is perched on a low branch of a tree while a female is on the ground.
The gray peacock-pheasant is a bird in the family Phasianidae native to Asia. It has an attractive plumage mottled with dark gray, buff, and white. The male shows blue or bluish-green eyespots on the tail and wings, the female on the tail only.
The caption reads in the original German: Der doppelspornige Sporn-Pfau (Polyplectron bicalcaratum).
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, bird, color, Phasianidae, reference book
