Five-coloured barbet and Moss-backed tanager
Date
1865
Creator
J Huet (French) , Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
RCN8171
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 294mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ornithological studies: figure 1 the Five-coloured barbet Capito quincolor; and figure 2 the Moss-backed tanager Bangsia edwardsi (here styled Buthraupis edwardsii), both birds native to Colombia and Ecuador. Each bird is shown on a tree branch.
Plate 4 accompanying the paper ‘Rapport sur quelques acquisitions nouvelles faites par la galerie ornithologique du muséum’, by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865); Bulletin pp.75-78.
Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Bulletin Tome 1. Pl.IV.’ Inscribed below with the species names and ‘J.Huet pinxt. et lith. Imp. Becquet, Paris.’
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalogist and ornithologist.
Plate 4 accompanying the paper ‘Rapport sur quelques acquisitions nouvelles faites par la galerie ornithologique du muséum’, by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.1 (Paris, 1865); Bulletin pp.75-78.
Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Bulletin Tome 1. Pl.IV.’ Inscribed below with the species names and ‘J.Huet pinxt. et lith. Imp. Becquet, Paris.’
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) French mammalogist and ornithologist.
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