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C1888
New Zealand Bittern.
Common name Australasian bittern or Matuku hurepo Binomial name Botaurus poiciloptilus First described Wagler 1827
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Full Title:
New Zealand Bittern.
Date:
C1888
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
205mm
x 275mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1888
Description:
Common name Australasian bittern or Matuku hurepo
Binomial name Botaurus poiciloptilus
First described Wagler 1827
John Gerrard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)
Keulemans was born in Rotterdam and as a young man he collected animal specimens for museums such as the Natural History Museum in Leiden, whose director, Hermann Schlegel, encouraged him by sending him on the 1864 expedition to West Africa. In 1869, he was persuaded by Richard Bowdler Sharpe to illustrate his Monograph of the Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers (1868-1871) and to move to England, where he lived for the rest of his life.
