Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12527

    Honeyeaters

    Date
    1884
    Creator
    Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 251mm
    width (print): 154mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Zoological studies of two birds, each varieties of honeyeater. Figure 1: the
    Rotuma myzomela Myzomela chermesina. Figure 2: Sclater's myzomela Myzomela sclateri. The birds are native to Fiji and Papua New Guinea respectively.

    Plate 3 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 above ‘Pl. III. P.Z.S. 1879 Pl.XXV.’ 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.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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