Burnished-Buff Tanager

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Burnished-buff tanager on the voluble stem of an abrus of the plain.

(Plate 30.)

Artist

Name:: Descourtilz, Jean-Théodore
Dates:: 179?-1855
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Lithograph
Lithographer:: Callier, Jean Étienne Joseph
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Natural History Museum Library, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Oiseaux brillans du Brésil
Author:: Descourtilz, Jean Théodore
Publisher:: Paris: 1834
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Description:

Hand-colored lithograph depicting a burnished-buff tanager (Stilpnia cayana) seen from the side, perching on what appears to be a specimen of Abrus precatorius. The burnished-buff tanager is a tropical bird in the family Thraupidae, native to South America.

The caption reads in the original French: Tangara Passe-Vert sur une tige volubile d’Abrus de la plaine.

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