Smaragdochrysis iridescens [?]
File — Box: 65, Folder: 1282, item: 1282b
Physical Description
38 x 28cm pencil; watercolor; chalk-charcoal-pastel
General
Note pasted to the reverse of previous: "Thalurania iolaema, von Selzeln. Ornith. Brasil / original in Vienna Museum. Collected by Natterer in Brazil / nearest allied [5 words inserted by Gould: 'if not the same as' Smaragdochrysis viidescens, Gould / [2 lines by Gould] My bird (viridescens) / My Bird pla[te?] in drawer 65." The published plate of the species cited above, Monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of hummingbirds V: 359, is completely different.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository