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Graphic material
1 illustration : pencil and ink on paper with watercolour ; 29.7 x 23.3 cm
Illustration of Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax); in French, Bihoreau gris; in Haitian Creole, Kòk lannwit kouwòn nwa. Place of creation: au Cap François, Haiti. Specimen origin: Haiti.
Trimmed, inscription cut off.
Watermarks: Horn or Strasbourg lily (partial).
Inscription (transcribed from recto): Le Jacobin.
Inscription (from recto; translation): The Jacobin.
Inscription (transcribed from verso): No. 4 Le Jacobin, au C[ap] Rabié / No 57 Le Jacobin, 1/2 grandeur naturelle.
Inscription (from verso; translation): No. 4 The Jacobin, at Le C[ap] Rabié / No 57 The Jacobin, 1/2 life size.
Identified by Henry Mousely as: Nycticorax nycticorax naevius Boddaert A.W.