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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 29.4 x 22.7 cm
Illustration of Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); in French, Bihoreau gris; in Haitian Creole, Kòk lannwit kouwòn nwa. Place of creation: Haiti. Specimen origin: Haiti.
Inscription (transcribed from recto): Crabier.
Inscription (from recto; translation): Crabeater.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): No. 1 / No. 53 Le crabier.
Inscription (from verso; translation): No. 1/No. 53 The Crabeater.
Identified by Henry Mousely as: Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Boddaert) immature A.W.