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    Image number: RS.9480
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    ‘Helianthea osculans’

    Date
    1887
    Creator
    William Matthew Hart (1830 - 1908, Irish) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    41618
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 500mm
    width (print): 350mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    ‘Helianthea osculans’ (buff-tailed starfrontlet). Illustration from A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds: Supplement ... completed after the author's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe, by John Gould, part V (London, 1887). The posthumous supplement to Gould’s 1861 monograph on hummingbirds.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > South America
          > Peru
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