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Cayenne Aracari
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Black-necked Aracari
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Pteroglossus aracari
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Pteroglossus aracari
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CA RBD MSG BW002-314
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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 a pair of Black-necked Aracaris from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Brazil and Venezuela.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Cayenne Aracari (Pteroglossus aracari)
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: No. 3 Ramphastos L.S:N: p. 103 aracari. Rhamphastos rostro nigro maxilla superiore lateribus alba basi triloboa; The Toucan with a black beak & white stripes in the Beak. Ed. 64 Marg. 217. Rai. av. 44
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Scientific name: Pteroglossus aracari
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Ramphastos Aracari
R. rostro nigro: maxilla superiore lateribus alba,
abdomine sulphureo fascia uropygioq[ue] sanguineis.
Linn: Syst: naturae. p.104.n.4.
Synonymum Edwardi huc non pertinet.
Caput, Collum, Dorsum, Alae & Cauda nigrican-
tia & paulo e viridi nitent Abdomen e viridi
flavum, in medio fascia sanguinea. Uro-
pygium sanguineum. Anus colore abdominis,
pennae autem uropygii longiores interdum la-
teribus dependentes subrubescentem reddunt
Anum. Rostri mandibula superior basi
triloba, lateribus alba, carina nigra obtusissi-
ma, interdum serrata plerumque laevis
Mandibula inferior nigra.
Habitat in Insulis Granadis.
Ramphastos
Aracari
Ramphastos rostro nigro: maxilla superiore
lateribus alba, basi triloba.
Toucan Edw. av. 64 t. 64
aracari margrave Cras. 217 Rai. av. 44
Habitat in America meridionali.
maxilla superior ad nares triloba,
quod non in reliquis fascia abdominis
anoq[ue] sanguiniis. LSN. p. 104
The Toucan
with a Black Beak Striped with White
NB. These Birds came from the Islands called the
Granades & were brought me by Mr Wm Harrison
with many others in ye year 1764 when he returned
from Barbadoes after the trial of his time keeper
for the discovery of the Longitude.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Ramphastos Aracari
R. with a black beak with white sides on the upper mandible,
a sulphur-yellow abdomen with a blood-red band, and a blood-red rump.
Linn: Syst: naturae p.104.n.4
It is given the same name by Edward but it does not apply here.
The head, neck, back, wings and tail are black
and have a slight green shine. The abdomen is coloured from
green to golden-yellow, there is a blood-red band in the middle.
The rump is blood-red. The posterior is the same colour as the abdomen,
however the feathers of the rump are longer and sometimes by
hanging over the sides they make the posterior
seem somewhat red. The upper mandible has three lobes at the base,
the sides are white, the rhamphotheca is a very dull black,
sometimes it is serrated but on many it is smoothe.
The lower mandible is black.
It lives in the Grenadine Islands.
Ramphastos
Aracari
Ramphastos with a black beak with white sides on the
upper mandible, and three lobes at the base.
Toucan Edw. av. 64 t. 64
aracari margrave Cras. 217 Rai. av. 44
It lives in South America.
The upper mandible near the nares has three lobes,
which are not found in other toucans; there is a blood-red band on the abdomen
and the posterior is blood-red. LSN. p.104
The Toucan
with a Black Beak Striped with White
NB. These Birds came from the Islands called the
Granades & were brought me by Mr W[illiam] Harrison
with many others in [the] year 1764 when he returned
from Barbadoes after the trial of his time keeper
for the discovery of the Longitude.
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Birds Volume 2, Painting 5