Brown sickle-bill bird-of-paradise (Epimachus meyeri) with Arhopala sp, Papua New Guinea, 1917 [picture] / Ellis Rowan
- Bib ID:
- 2687390
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Rowan, Ellis, 1848-1922
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1917
- 1 painting : watercolour ; 76.0 x 55.7 cm.
- Series:
- Flower and bird paintings.
- Notes:
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- Watercolour signed by artist.
- Ellis Rowan Papuan Collection 275/221.
- Condition: Good.
- Also called: "Gorget bird of paradise".
- "Found in the high mossed forests of the main New Guinean cordillera where it announces its presence with a machine-gun-like burst of staccato notes. The tree in which they are perched - a lowland Nanclea or Gardenia - is an artefact. Two males."--Accompanying notes.
- Title based on information from ornithologist from the CSIRO. See acquisition file number NLA/15115.
- "Common name, an 'Oak Blue'. Lycaenidae. Family of Blues."--Accompanying note from ornithologist from the CSIRO.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138748316
- R1948.
- Subject:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Flower and bird paintings.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1922
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1917
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