All Resolutions
(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(s):
- Descourtilz, Jean Théodore
- Published:
- Paris, 1834
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Plate showing a burnished-buff tanager (Stilpnia cayana), a tropical bird in the family Thraupidae, native to South America, perching on what could be a specimen of Abrus precatorius.
The caption reads in the original French: Tangara Passe-Vert sur une tige volubile d’Abrus de la plaine.
Keywords: 1830s, 19th century, bird, color, passerine, reference book, South America, Thraupidae, tropical
