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Otis the Ruffed Bustard
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CA RBD MSG BW007-1
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1811 (Creation)
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1 engraving : hand-coloured watercolour and gouache, mounted ; 21.5 x 17.2 cm on sheet 35.5 x 29.2 cm
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(1749-1819)
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Item consists of colour illustration on paper (no watermark) of ruffed bustard, with note: "A beautiful Variety of the Otis Tarda, 1811." Additional inscription in pencil underneath includes the scientific name: "Chlamydotis undulata undulata." The image is copied from George Shaw, Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et Latina (1792), v. 1, p. 338
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A copy from Shaw's work on the Leverian Museum: Shaw, George, Sydenham Edwards, Philip Reinagle, Charles Reuben Ryley, William Skelton, and Sarah Stone. 1792. Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina. Vol. 1. [London]: Impensis Jacobi Parkinson. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29568656.
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Current binomial(s): Chlamydotis macqueenii (Gray JE, 1832) (Otidiformes: Otididae)
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Other names: Bird: Ruffled bustard; Macqueen's Bustard
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Note on names: Otis tard, given in the caption is the name for the Great bustard. Shaw, from whom this image is copied, called it Otis Houbara.