Megalus Cassinii and Syrnium Albogularis

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Megalus Cassinii and Syrnium Albogularis

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Item No: pdcj00083
Title: Megalus Cassinii and Syrnium Albogularis
Media Type: Lithographs
Source: Print and Picture Collection - Jackson Collection of American Lithographs
Notes:

John Cassin (1813-1869) was an outstanding American ornithologist, head of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia's bird department and associated with the J.T. Bowen lithographic establishment.  These are his taxonomic names.


Notes:

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 2nc. Series, Vol. 2. Pl. 6 & 4.

The left-hand page (Pl. 6) is a Cassin's Auklet (Mergulus Cassinii) and the right-hand page (Pl. 4) is a White-throated Screech Owl (Syrnium Albogularis).


Notes:

These prints…all appeared in the 2nd series of the Jour. Of the Acad. Of Nat. Sci. of Phila. In the bound volumes, they were hand-colored. (A.E. Phillips, Academy Editor)


Creation Year: ca. 1850
Creator Name: Hitchcock, William (c.1824-c.1880) - Artist
Bowen, J.T., Phila. - Lithographer

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