Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12984

    Rainforest scops owl

    Date
    1844
    Creator
    Rebuffet (French) , Printmaker
    After
    Pierre Oudart (French) , Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 299mm
    width (print): 227mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Ornithological study of the Rainforest, or Madagascar scops owl (also classified as the Torotoroka scops owl) Scops rutilus. The nocturnal bird is shown in profile, posed on a rock. It is native to Madagascar.

    Plate 22 accompanying the paper ‘Considérations générales sur les oiseaux de proie nocturnes…’, by Jacques Pucheran, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.4 (Paris, 1844) pp.313-343.

    Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. Tome IV Pl. XXII’. Inscribed below: ‘SCOPS RUTILUS, Puch. Oudart pinx. Rebuffet sculp.’

    Jacques Pucheran (1817-1895) French zoologist.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Madagascar
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