Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21930

    Black-breasted buzzard

    Date
    1848
    Creator
    Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789 - 1850, British) , Lithographer
    After
    John Gould (1804 - 1881, British) , Ornithologist
    Henry Constantine Richter (1821 - 1902, British) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    41607
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 546mm
    width (print): 357mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Ornithological study of the black-breasted buzzard, Buteo melanosternon, Gould. showing a male two-thirds of the natural size, perched on a branch with a rodent in his talons.

    Inscribed ‘BUTEO MELANOSTERNON: Gould. J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.’

    Illustration from The birds of Australia by John Gould FRS (1848), vol. 1.

    John Gould (1804-1881), British ornithologist and publisher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843.

    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Oceania
          > Australia
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