Kafiristan Pucras Pheasant Pucrasia castanea

by John Gould

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image from John Gould's magnificent folio work 'The Birds of Asia'. Now known as the Western Kolass Pheasant. John Gould notes that 'Two adult examples of this Pheasant grace the collection of the Hon. East India Company, and I am indebted to the Directors and to Dr. Horsfield for permission to figure so fine a bird for the first time in The Birds of Asia .' 'The Koklass Pheasants have a very discontinuous area of distribution; some subspecies are found in the

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