Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Fringa lobata. N. W. C[oast] of America. Picus tridactylus. Norton's Sound ... Gull ... Butcher bird, caught at ice between Asia and America [1779]

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Title

Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :Fringa lobata. N. W. C[oast] of America. Picus tridactylus. Norton's Sound ... Gull ... Butcher bird, caught at ice between Asia and America [1779]

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TAPUHI

Description

Four drawings of the heads of birds, seen in profile, with two seen from above and the beaks and feet or legs of the three upper specimens also shown. The birds shown are the Phalarope, the Alaskan 3-toed woodpecker, a gull probably from Alaska and the butcher bird Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in ink, with numbers 74, 75, 76 and 77. Also in pencil, top right, the number 1.191 crossed out and 1.210 substituted Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation Quantity: 1 watercolour(s...

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Date created

1779

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22455930

Locations

Nootka Sound / Alaska

Related subjects

Gulls / Birds / Phalaropes / Woodpeckers / Nootka Sound / Alaska

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