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No, Stan you are the hard headed one. Always. You are nothing if not predictable

In that the gun was most likely made for use in the UK, I go with Eurasian curlew. In the US, what are currently called whimbrels were once lumped into the curlew category--for instance, Hudsonian Curlews are now known as whimbrels. Here's a photo taken by a local birder of a migrating group of whimbrels or "curlews" on one of Georgia's barrier islands. Note the fiddler crab in one of their bills as they fatten up on the Georgia coast for migration to the tundra for nesting.


Curlews were once hunted on the Atlantic coast here in the U.S. Audubon's account and print of the Hudsonian Curlew:
https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/hudsonian-curlew
He also did a print of the Longbilled Curlew with Charleston SC as a back drop.
All of the "curlews" bare a superficial resemblance to one another. In the hand, they are widgeon size.

Here are two of my curlew decoys carved by different makers from the Cape May, N.J. area probably in the 1890s. The smaller of the two has numerous shot holes on each side, more on the off camera side. Gil

I thought it was a long billed jOe'ja dove....

I'll agree with Wild Skies 100%. Although we have both curlew and whimbrel only the curlew was really hunted up until 1981 when it was then protected. The duck, although crude, most resembles a European Wigeon. Two species typically targeted as wildfowl at the time the gun was made. Lagopus�..

BINGO!

Now that those birds have been settled on as Curlew & European Widgeon tell me what these are. This is probably a late 1890s J P Clabrough & Bros gun. I believe you can hit Ctrl & + if you need to enlarge them a bit for clarity.

Left Lockplate
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Right Lockplate

Pheasant, of course on one side and prairie chicken on the other because of the stripes across the breasts of the birds. No they don't look like prairie chickens, but I doubt the pictures they were engraved from did either...Geo

Geo;
That was what I thought, but not really that familiar with Prairie chickens, but specifically which species of pheasant, they do not appear to me to be the Chinese Ringneck & this gun was likely built for the American market.

When was the Chinese Ringneck introduced in America?

I feel that on the left they are guinea fowl

The right side has pheasants and those are also in the
down under.



I would submit that this gun was bound for Australia

Could be the pheasants are girls, unless they're guineas as Skeetx surmised...Geo