Darwin's Pucras Pheasant Pucrasia darwini

by John Gould

$2,500 · 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 Darwin's Koklass Pheasant. John Gould quotes from Elliot's monograph on the pheasant family 'This new species of Pheasant appears to represent, on the eastern Chinese ranges, the buff-spotted Pucras of the more western portion of that mighty empire'. 'The Koklass Pheasants have a very discontinuous area of distribution; some subspecies are found in the Himalayas from Afghanistan to Nepal,

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