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Nests of the Baya with the Mahudavi Creeper
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CA RBD MSG BW003-4
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approximately 1811 (Creation)
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1 illustration : colour ; 29.8 x 24.1 cm
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(1749-1819)
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Item consists of colour illustration of hoopoe perched on a Madhavi lata, or rangoon creeper, with caption in contemporary hand. Additional later pencil notes provide the additional identification "Baya Weaver Bird (Ploceus baya)" and indicate that the image corresponds to Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, 1813, volume 1, page 48.
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Contains extensive notes by Casey A. Wood and Henry Mousely on verso (1927 and 1932), regarding the attribution to James Forbes.
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With stamp: Dr. Casey Wood, Author's Club, London, S. W. L. England.