拍品专文
This would appear to be a completed, yet unused illustration for Gould's The Birds of Asia. The watercolour is very similar stylistically to the Lineated Pheasant depicted in Asia, VII, pl.14.
The pheasant portrayed closely resembles the Black-backed Kaleege illustrated by Joseph Wolf in D.G. Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, 1872. In his text Elliot explains that in the mountains of northern India allied species of the genus Euplocamus interbreed in areas where the ranges of their territories overlap.
D.G. Elliot, Monograph of the Phasianidae, 1872, II, pl.19 Euplocamus melanotis
DISTRIBUTION: Himalayas in southern Asia from Indus river to northeastern Assam, southward to Burma and western Thailand.
The birds depicted are almost certainly the subspecies the Black-backed Kalij Lophura leucomelanos melanotus which comes from Darjeeling, Sikkim and western Bhutan. There is considerable geographic variation in the males and identification of the subspecies is extremely difficult without knowing from where the specimen was obtained
The pheasant portrayed closely resembles the Black-backed Kaleege illustrated by Joseph Wolf in D.G. Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, 1872. In his text Elliot explains that in the mountains of northern India allied species of the genus Euplocamus interbreed in areas where the ranges of their territories overlap.
D.G. Elliot, Monograph of the Phasianidae, 1872, II, pl.19 Euplocamus melanotis
DISTRIBUTION: Himalayas in southern Asia from Indus river to northeastern Assam, southward to Burma and western Thailand.
The birds depicted are almost certainly the subspecies the Black-backed Kalij Lophura leucomelanos melanotus which comes from Darjeeling, Sikkim and western Bhutan. There is considerable geographic variation in the males and identification of the subspecies is extremely difficult without knowing from where the specimen was obtained