TAXIDERMY: A VICTORIAN DOME DISPLAY OF EXOTIC AFRICAN BIRDS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
TAXIDERMY: A VICTORIAN DOME DISPLAY OF EXOTIC BIRDS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
comprising seventeen birds displayed under a glass dome to include - Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) Arabian green bee-eater (Merops cyanophrys) Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) Eastern striped manakin (Machaeropterus regulus) Ecuadorian piedtail (Phlogophilus hemileucurus) Eastern yellow robin (Eopsaltria australis) Yellow-faced honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops) Cassique à ailes jaunes (Cassiculus melanicterus) Yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) Campo oriole (Icterus jamacaii) Indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) Lidth's jay (Garrulus lidthi) Sillem's rosefinch (Carpodacus sillemi) Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) the birds arranged on branches, with grasses and moss to the base, on an oak oval base with glass dome over.
Approximately 72cm high
Subject to CITES. International buyers are responsible for any required export permits. No permit is required for UK buyers as this item pre-dates 1947.
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TAXIDERMY: A VICTORIAN DOME DISPLAY OF EXOTIC BIRDS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
comprising seventeen birds displayed under a glass dome to include - Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) Arabian green bee-eater (Merops cyanophrys) Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) Eastern striped manakin (Machaeropterus regulus) Ecuadorian piedtail (Phlogophilus hemileucurus) Eastern yellow robin (Eopsaltria australis) Yellow-faced honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops) Cassique à ailes jaunes (Cassiculus melanicterus) Yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) Campo oriole (Icterus jamacaii) Indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) Lidth's jay (Garrulus lidthi) Sillem's rosefinch (Carpodacus sillemi) Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) the birds arranged on branches, with grasses and moss to the base, on an oak oval base with glass dome over.
Approximately 72cm high
Subject to CITES. International buyers are responsible for any required export permits. No permit is required for UK buyers as this item pre-dates 1947.
