Red-backed button quail
Date
1884
Creator
Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (print): 154mm
width (print): 251mm
width (print): 251mm
Subject
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Description
Zoological study of the Red-backed Buttonquail Turnix maculosus (here styled Turnix saturata), shown in a wooded landscape with a second bird specimen behind.
Plate 25 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 a new species of hemipode from New Britain’, Ibis, 1882, pp.428-446.
Inscribed with the signature ‘J.Smit’ on the plate. Inscribed above ‘Pl. XXV. Ibis. 1882. Pl.XII.’ Inscribed below: ‘J.Smit lith. Hanhart imp. TURNIX SATURATA.’
William Alexander Forbes (1855-1883) British zoologist travelled to Brazil, and West Africa where he died.
Plate 25 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 a new species of hemipode from New Britain’, Ibis, 1882, pp.428-446.
Inscribed with the signature ‘J.Smit’ on the plate. Inscribed above ‘Pl. XXV. Ibis. 1882. Pl.XII.’ Inscribed below: ‘J.Smit lith. Hanhart imp. TURNIX SATURATA.’
William Alexander Forbes (1855-1883) British zoologist travelled to Brazil, and West Africa where he died.
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