Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12985

    Rainforest scops owl

    Date
    1844
    Creator
    Guyard (French) , Printmaker
    After
    Jean-Charles Werner (1798 - 1856, 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 (here referred to as Bubo madagascariensis). The nocturnal bird is shown in profile on a tree branch and is native to Madagascar.

    Plate 23 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. XXIII’. Inscribed below: ‘BUBO MADAGASCARIENSIS, Puch. Werner pinx. Guyard sculp.’

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