Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13079

    Blue eared pheasant and Koklass pheasant

    Date
    1865
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN8171
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 294mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Ornithological studies of male and female birds: figures 1-2 the Blue eared pheasant Crossoptillon auritum, a bird native to China; and figures 3-4 the Koklass pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha (here styled Pucrasia xanthospila, and therefore possibly the Yellow necked koklass).

    Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Rapport sur diverses collections envoyées au museum par le P. Armand David…’ by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865); Bulletin pp.1-30..

    Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Bulletin Tome 1. Pl.1.’ Inscribed below with the species names and ‘Imp. A. Salmon, à Paris.’

    Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalogist and ornithologist.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > France
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