Head of a bird from the Canaries
Date
25 April 1692
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol12 p330
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 308mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
Subject
Content object
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 from LBO/12/289.
This is copied from LBO/12/289.
Transcription
Here I did see also a very pretty bird which the Natives call Bovitas (its Feathures [sic] of a light brown colour the wing Tail and plume of the Feathers) on the head being curiously streated with black; its about the bigness of a Starling, the Bill is Straight, black about 2 1/2 inch long; the feathers on its head when not Displayed stand thus - {IMAGE} and seem as that it were but one feather but when displayed Stand thus - {IMAGE*} hollow where you see the *. I will do the best to procure some of them for you and my good friend Mr. Charleton &c.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
Associated place