Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9859
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‘Trochilidae’ [humming birds]
Date
1899
Creator
Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
After
Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
Object type
Library reference
42553
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 357mm
width (print): 279mm
width (print): 279mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ornithological study of twelve humming birds, within a landscape of plants and with details of nests and egg clutches:
1 Trochilus colubris; 2 Heliactinus cornutu; 3 Topaza pella; 4 Lophornis ornate; 5 Sparganura sappho; 6 Docimastes ensifor; 7 Eutroxeres condamini; 8 Lophornis gouldii; 9 Ornismya petasphora; 10 Augastes lumachellus; 11 Hylocharis stokesii; 12 Steganura underwoodi.
Plate 99 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1 Trochilus colubris; 2 Heliactinus cornutu; 3 Topaza pella; 4 Lophornis ornate; 5 Sparganura sappho; 6 Docimastes ensifor; 7 Eutroxeres condamini; 8 Lophornis gouldii; 9 Ornismya petasphora; 10 Augastes lumachellus; 11 Hylocharis stokesii; 12 Steganura underwoodi.
Plate 99 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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