Black skimmer Mark Catesby
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Black skimmer
Ornithological study of a black skimmer, Rynchops niger, referred to here as larus major rostro, shown in right profile. A bird from the Rynchopidae family, native to the Americas.
Signed below and inscribed above: '90 Larus major rostro inaequali. Cutwater.'
Plate 90 from volume I of Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London, 1731).
- Image reference: RS-18625
- © The Royal Society
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