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Megacrex inepta

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Title

Megacrex inepta

Date

1880

Contributor

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

Description

Drawing depicting: Megacrex inepta -- Papuan Flightless Rail [New-guinea flightless rail]

Note

Very finished drawing; largely indecipherable note about webbing at foot of sheet. This drawing makes possible an interesting grouping of Gould 0011 (JG's preliminary drawing), this finely drawn version by Hart, and the published plate.

Extent

Full sheet

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration
Megacrex inepta

Gould number

1524

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/18794

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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