All Resolutions
(Plate 2.)
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 an orange-cheeked parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi), also known as the Barraband’s parrot, a tropical bird in the family Psittacidae, native to South America.
The caption reads in the original French: Psittacule Caïca-Barraband sur un Sloanæa des Bois Vierges.
Keywords: 1830s, 19th century, bird, color, Psittacidae, reference book, South America, tropical
