Craspedophora magnificaStillImageDrawing depicting: Craspedophora magnificaGould, John , 1804-1881 (artist)Hart, William Matthew , 1830-1908 (artist)Litho print; non-standard coloring?: colors vary from KU bound volumes. See note to Gould 2086. The colors of the praepectoral shield on the male in Birds of New Guinea I: 13 differ from those in Sharpe's Birds of Paradise
I:13 in the bound volumes, but other parts of the plate, including the cloud formations seem to follow a common model, and show a uniformly superior handling of the brush compared with some of those in the group Gould 2086-2108. Previously published at Birds of New Guinea I: 13 under the name Graspedophora magnifica (but correct in text), printed by Walter.ku-gould:18212https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/18212Gould 2120OrnithologyOrnithological illustrationelectronicimage/tiffMonograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds--Ellis Aves H127This work is free of known copyright restrictions.