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Seleucides nigricans

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Title

Seleucides nigricans

Date

1881, 1891/1898

Contributor

Gould, John , 1804-1881 (artist)
Hart, William Matthew , 1830-1908 (artist)

Description

Drawing depicting: Seleucides nigricans

Note

Tracing on tissue. This appears to be an early version of the plates. The drawing shows one full-size bird, plus 2 in the distance, and a profuse berry-bearing plant; the bird's bill is closed. In Birds of New Guinea I: 14 the principal bird's bill is partially open, holding a large insect, and there is a second full-sized bird. In Sharpe's Birds of Paradise I: 9 the positions of the 2 birds are changed, and both birds are eating berries from the same sort of tree as in the drawing. Interestingly enough, Bowdler Sharpe writes in the text to his Paradiseidae: "The Plates are the same as those published by Gould in his 'Birds of New Guinea.' "

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration

Gould number

1743

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/18584

Call number

Ellis Aves H129

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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