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Adelomyia melanogenys

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Title

Adelomyia melanogenys

Date

1855

Contributor

Gould, John , 1804-1881 (artist)
Richter, Henry Constantine , 1821-1902 (artist)

Description

Drawing depicting: Adelomyia melanogenys melanogenys -- Speckled Hummingbird. Alternate name on piece: Adelomyia melanogenys

Note

Layout drawing, birds well finished; corrections; the sheet seems to have been used to try out pencil shading, some of it over the drawing or notes. Title in pencil by Sotheran, bookseller.

Extent

Sheet trimmed unevenly. 35 x 38cm

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration
Adelomyia melanogenys

Gould number

147

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/20049

Call number

Ellis Aves H91

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

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

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