Company School Watercolour of a Male Painted Spurfowl

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India, First half of the 19th century
Watercolour on European paper
30.8cm high, 48.8cm wide

Male Painted Spurfowl (Galloperdix lunulata)

Erroneously labelled as a different member of the pheasant family, 'Hill Partridge' (Arborophila torqueola), this is the male painted spurfowl. Though the two species look similar, the bird in the painting is identified as a spurfowl from the eponymous spurs on its tarsus, or the back of the leg.