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Crabier dit Jacob
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- Source of title proper: Title from caption on recto.
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CA RBD 1-54
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4 August 1784 (Creation)
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1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 29.2 x 22.7 cm
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(1717-1785)
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Illustration of Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias); in French, Grand héron; in Haitian Creole, Gwo Krabye ble. Place of creation: au Cap François, Haiti. Specimen origin: Haiti.
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Trimmed, inscription cut off.
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General note
Inscription (transcribed from recto): Crabier dit Jacob.
General note
Inscription (from recto; translation): Jacob Crabeater.
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Inscription (transcribed from verso): No. 51. grand crabier apele Jacob. Espece de heron au 1/3 de grand nat. 4 pi. 6 de l'extremite du Bec a celle des pieds au Cap le 4 aoust 1784 Rabié / No. 55 grand crabier, dit Jacob, espece de héron, au 1/3 de grandeur naturelle, 4 pieds, six pouces de l'extrémité du bec a celle des pieds.
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Inscription (from verso; translation): No. 51 large crabeater called Jacob. A kind of heron at 1/3 natural sixe, 4 feet 6 inches from the end of the beak to the toes at le Cap 4 August 1784 Rabié.
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Identified by Henry Mousely as: Ardea herodias adoxa Oberholser immature A.W.
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Table number
55
De Rabié number
43