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Image number: RS.9481
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‘Thalurania jelskii’
Date
1887
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Object type
Library reference
41618
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Dimensions
height (print): 440mm
width (print): 330mm
width (print): 330mm
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Description
Thalurania jelskii, or Jelski's wood-nymph, named after its Polish discoverer, Konstanty Jelski (1837-1896). 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.
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