"Gallinaceae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... naturalist at the museum. It was inscribed by Prince Ch. L. Bonaparte, in his Tableaux Paralleliques de l'Ordre des Gallinaces, as Argus giganteus, and a few years later it was reproduced by Slater in his Catalogue of the Phasianidae, and by Gray is his List of the Gallinaceae. But it was not till 1871 and 1872 that Elliot, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and in a splendid monograph of the Phasianidae, pointed out the peculiarities that were presented by the feathers preserved ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various |
