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C1811
Australasian Channel Bill.
Artist:
Moses Griffith (1747 - 1819)
The Channel-billed Cuckoo, is the worlds largest cuckoo and often incorrectly described as a Hornbill, due it’s large beak. Modern common names Channel-billed Cuckoo, Storm Bird, Fig Hawk and Flood Bird. Modern binomial name Scythrops novaehollandiae First described Latham 1790 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Australasian Channel Bill.
Date:
C1811
Artist:
Moses Griffith (1747 - 1819)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Original copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
120mm
x 190mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1811
Description:
The Channel-billed Cuckoo, is the worlds largest cuckoo and often incorrectly described as a Hornbill, due it’s large beak.
Modern common names Channel-billed Cuckoo, Storm Bird, Fig Hawk and Flood Bird.
Modern binomial name Scythrops novaehollandiae
First described Latham 1790
Distribution WA, NT, QLD & NSW
Reference Reader’s Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: p.326, ill.326
From Shaw’s General Zoology or Systematic Natural History.
Biography:
Moses Griffith (1747-1819)
Water-colour painter with no formal training but in 1769 he was engaged by Thomas Pennant who in discovering his aptitude as a draughtsman employed him to illustrate his tours. He then provided a number of illustrations for Pennant’s, Genera of Birds.
