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Upupa Epops
Item
1 illustration : colour ; 35.5 x 29.2 cm
Item consists of a colour illustration of a hoopoe poised on a Kamala orange branch next to a butterfly in flight, with identification, description, and two lines of verse written in pen in contemporary hand: Upupua Epops, Buff. Hodod, Hind. A beautiful variety of the Indian Sultana; On the Comlah, or Chinese Orange, from Aurung-abad. Drawn 1767. Copied 1811.
Baskets, which golden Comlahs held,/
Like Topazes with Amrit* swell'd.
(*Nectar)