Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12999

    Greater roadrunner

    Date
    1835
    Creator
    Bièvre (French) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 258mm
    width (print): 295mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Zoological study of the Greater roadrunner, Geococcyx californianus (here referred to as Coucou churea) a bird native to the southern United States of America and Mexico. Side view.

    Plate 9 accompanying the descriptive note ‘Description du saurothera californiana’. Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire, v.4 (Paris, 1835) pp.121-124.

    Inscribed above: ‘P.E. BOTTA. 9.’ Inscribed below: ‘G. de Bièvre lith. Lith. De Langlumé.’

    Paul-Émile Botta (1802-1870) French scientist was the naturalist aboard the ship Heros from 1826. The expedition visited Mexico and Alta California.
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