Indigobird and pytelia
Date
1884
Creator
Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 251mm
width (print): 154mm
width (print): 154mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological studies of two birds. Figure 1: probably the Village indigobird Vidua chalybeata (here styled Vidua spendens). Figure 2: the Orange-winged pytelia Pytelia afra (here styled Pytelia wieneri). The birds, native to Africa, are shown on a tree-branch with a third, long-tailed vidua bird behind.
Plate 7 in The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, edited by F.E. Beddard (London, R.H. Porter, 1885). Originally published as ‘On two rare ploceine birds now or lately living in the Society’s menagerie’, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 18880, pp.475-477.
Inscribed with the signature ‘J.Smit’ on the plate. Inscribed above ‘Pl. VII. P.Z.S. 1880 Pl.XLVII.’ 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 7 in The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, edited by F.E. Beddard (London, R.H. Porter, 1885). Originally published as ‘On two rare ploceine birds now or lately living in the Society’s menagerie’, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 18880, pp.475-477.
Inscribed with the signature ‘J.Smit’ on the plate. Inscribed above ‘Pl. VII. P.Z.S. 1880 Pl.XLVII.’ 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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