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Unidentified bird drawing

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Title

Unidentified bird drawing

Description

Drawing depicting: Unidentified bird drawing

Note

Very rough and confused sketch of 3 birds, with 3 sketches of other head positions; "Mr Le Froy, Frdk / the Humming Bird / who now lives at . . . . [?] / when he leves for Australi / as one of Governors of that / country" (Lieut. Col. Sir John Henry Lefroy was a subscriber to Monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of hummingbirds, and is listed in Sauer 1995 as geographer, governor and subscriber).

Extent

Full sheet

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration

Gould number

0505a

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/19667

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

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

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