Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14666

    Head of a bird from the Canaries

    Date
    25 April 1692
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p289
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Page): 313mm
    width (Page): 197mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Two small ink drawings in the text indicating the shape of the head of a bird found in the Canary Islands, called 'Bovitas'. From a copy of a letter dated 25 April 1692 at Grand Canary, from on board the ship Modena, by George Handisyde, surgeon in the Royal Navy, to Hans Sloane.

    This is copied in LBC/12/330.
    Related fellows
    Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Spain
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