Honeyeaters
Date
1884
Creator
Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (print): 251mm
width (print): 154mm
width (print): 154mm
Subject
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Description
Zoological studies of three birds, each varieties of honeyeater. Figure 1: the Sulawesi myzomela Myzomela chloroptera. Figure 2: the Dusky myzomela Myzomela obscura (here styled Myzomela rubrobrunnea). Figure 3: the Mountain myzomela Myzomela adolphinae.
Plate 2 in The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, edited by F.E. Beddard (London, R.H. Porter, 1885). Originally published as ‘A synopsis of the meliphagine genus Myzomela, with descriptions of two new species’, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1879, pp.256-279.
Inscribed with the signature ‘J.Smit’ on the plate. Inscribed below: ‘J.Smit lith. Hanhart imp’. A key to the figures appears below.
William Alexander Forbes (1855-1883) British zoologist travelled to Brazil, and West Africa where he died.
Plate 2 in The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, edited by F.E. Beddard (London, R.H. Porter, 1885). Originally published as ‘A synopsis of the meliphagine genus Myzomela, with descriptions of two new species’, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1879, pp.256-279.
Inscribed with the signature ‘J.Smit’ on the plate. Inscribed below: ‘J.Smit lith. Hanhart imp’. A key to the figures appears below.
William Alexander Forbes (1855-1883) British zoologist travelled to Brazil, and West Africa where he died.
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