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Arctic or Richardson’s Skua ad. [male]
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Arctic Skua, Parasitic Jaeger
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Stercorarius parasiticus
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Stercorasius parasiticus
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CA RBD MSG BW002-806
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(approximately 1720-approximately 1790)
Biographical history
Peter Paillou was born in London into a Huguenot family and was recognised in his own time as an eminent ‘bird painter’. In 1744 he began to paint for Taylor White and worked for him for almost thirty years, painting chiefly birds and mammals. He painted as well for Robert More, Joseph Banks, and for the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Many of his paintings of birds were used as the basis for book illustrations, often engraved by his colleague and fellow Huguenot, Peter Mazell. Paillou was elected to the Society of Artists and in 1763 he exhibited ‘A Piece of Birds, in Watercolours; the Hen of the Wood and Cock of the Red Game’. In 1778, to considerable approval, he also showed a picture of ‘A Horned Owl from Peru’, completely made from feathers.
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Drawing of an Arctic Skua--also known as a Parasitic Jaeger--from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: widespread along all coasts.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Arctic or Richardson’s Skua ad. [male] (Stercorasius parasiticus)
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Scientific name: Stercorarius parasiticus
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Larus.
Parasiticus
- Larus rectricibus duabus intermediis
longissimis L.S.N: 226 ed: nov.
Sterna rectricibus maximis nigris
Larus subfuscus major, vertice nigro
ventre albido, rectricibus mediis
longissimis. Brown. jam. 482.
habitat intra tropicum Cancri
Europae Americae asiae.
The Bill of this bird is shaped like the Gull
having an angle or protuberance on the lower
mandible. it is of a dirty yellow but the point
black over the Bill in the male is a white
spot the crown of the Head is black as is
a spot or line passing from the bill under the
Eye. the uper side of the Body is dark coloured
almost black the neck & underside of ye Body is White
the feet dark coloured and like the gulls
No. 37
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Aves Anseres Larus.
Parasiticus
- Larus with two very long centrail tail feathers.
L.S.N: 226 ed: nov.
Sterna with large black flight feathers on the tail
Larus subfuscus major [The great somewhat tawny...], with a black crown,
white stomach, and very long central tail feathers.
Brown. jam. 482
It lives within the tropic of Cancer
in Europe, America, and Asia.
The Bill of this bird is shaped like the Gull
having an angle or protuberance on the lower
mandible. it is of a dirty yellow but the point
black over the Bill in the male is a white
spot the crown of the Head is black as is
a spot or line passing from the bill under the
Eye. the uper side of the Body is dark coloured
almost black the neck & underside of ye Body is White
the feet dark coloured and like the gulls
No. 37
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Birds Volume 14, Painting 37