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Motacilla yarrelli

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Title

Motacilla yarrelli

Date

1867

Creator

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

Description

Drawing depicting: Motacilla yarrelli

Note

Layout drawing, birds quite finished; 3 form and color notes ; large letter C; sheet trimmed on both sides and note; "Make this an upright Drawing"; "from Specimen"; "Edwin Abbott Esq. / Philological School." Each of the two birds may have been used separately as references for the published forms of Motacilla yarrelli and Motacilla alba, both in landscape aspect, but the plants (Nuphar lutea) were redrawn for Porzana pygmaea (Birds of Great Britian IV:89).

Extent

39 x 38cm

Subject

Ornithology
Ornithological illustration

Gould number

537

URI

https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-gould/20316

Call number

Ellis Aves H131

Rights statement

This work is free of known copyright restrictions.

Rights URI

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

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