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C1884
Goffin’s Cockatoo.
Artist:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836 - 1917)
Modern common name : Solomon Island’s cokatoo, Ducorps’ cockatoo, Solomons corella or broad-crested corella. Modern binomial name : Cacatua ducorpsii Distribution : Solomon Islands First described Pucheran 1853 (Finsch 1863) From : Greene, Parrots in Captivity. Historically, the discovery of the species as Lophochroa goffini is … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Goffin’s Cockatoo.
Date:
C1884
Artist:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836 - 1917)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Colour printed engraving.
Image Size:
200mm
x 150mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1884
Description:
Modern common name : Solomon Island’s cokatoo, Ducorps’ cockatoo, Solomons corella or broad-crested corella.
Modern binomial name : Cacatua ducorpsii
Distribution : Solomon Islands
First described Pucheran 1853 (Finsch 1863)
From : Greene, Parrots in Captivity.
Historically, the discovery of the species as Lophochroa goffini is attributed to Otto Finsch in 1863. It was named for Andreas Leopold Goffin, a friend of Finsch and apparently a Dutch naval lieutenant who died the same year at the age of 26. In 2000, it became clear that Finsch’s formal description of this species was based on two specimens that actually belonged to an entirely different cockatoo species, the Ducorps’ or Solomons cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii).Cacatua goffini thus became a synonym for Cacatua ducorpsii
Biography:
Alexander Francis Lydon (1836–1917)
English watercolour artist, illustrator and engraver of natural history and landscapes. He collaborated and worked for Benjamin Fawcett the printer, to whom he had been apprenticed from the age of fourteen.
