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[Unidentified bird drawing]

 File — Box: 52, Folder: 1032
Unidentified bird drawing
Unidentified bird drawing

Physical Description

Full sheet pencil; watercolor

General

Very finished painting of unidentified perching bird; at top of sheet, in pencil and difficult to make out: "Calamoherpe ? Subflavescens Eller[?] / from Dahourie / see Proceedings April 1875 / Allied to greyshaft . . . / ? The same as fasciolatus Gray / from the Moluccas"; at foot "2/2/-" (Sotheran price). Artist's name(s): Richter, Henry Constantine[?].

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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