Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12986

    Stygian 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 Stygian owl Asio stygius (here referred to as Otus stygius) shown on a tree branch. The bird is native to Central and South America.

    Plate 24 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. XXIV’. Inscribed below: ‘OTUS STYGIUS, G.R.Gr. Werner pinx. Guyard sculp. Chardon anné et Aze imp. Vaillant color.’

    Jacques Pucheran (1817-1895) French zoologist.
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