The great argus, Argusianus argus (Argus pheasant or gigantic argus, Argus giganteus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine’s the Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds in his Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology, Lizars, Edinburgh, 1834.

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