Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird Franz Andreas Bauer
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Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird
Plate 16 from the paper "Some acount of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.332-338. Home's paper relays observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the Edible-nest switlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus). Bauer's nine figures are gullet details of these and other birds under magnification. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del." and lower right "Is. Basire sc."
Original: pencil on paper. 1817
- Image reference: RS-8657
- The Royal Society
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