Crested fireback, Lophura ignita, female (The Macartney cock, Euplocomus ignitus). 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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