Description
original hand-colour lithograph RARE ornithological print from “The Ornithological Works”, Pl. 24. This rare book contains beautiful and large plate illustrations of the most exotic birds of the Philippine Islands.
![1) Merops Bicolor [Rufous-crowned Bee-eater]; 2) Merops Sumatranus [Blue-throated Bee-eater]](https://www.gop.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/JO62629-Tweeddale-1881-Merops-Bicolor.webp)
1) Merops Bicolor [Rufous-crowned Bee-eater]; 2) Merops Sumatranus [Blue-throated Bee-eater]
Author: Arthur Hay, Marquis of Tweeddale [author] / William Howard Russell [co-author] / Robert George Ramsay / Wardlaw [ed] / Joseph Smit [artist] / John Gerrard Keulemans [artist]
Publisher: written by Arthur Hay, the Marquis of Tweeddale, & William Howard Russell, and edited by Robert George Ramsay; with plates drawn by Joseph Smit and John Gerrard Keulemans, London.
Year: 1881 [1875]
Size: 18.4 x 21.1 cm
Reference: Nissen IVB, 418 under A. Hay; Nissen Vogelbuecher, 419; Sitwell-B. 149; Anker 513; BM Natural History, 804; Zimmer 293; Wood 605.
Condition
with paper loss and burn marks along margins, not affecting plate, with slight smudges and light stains.
![Lichtensteinipicus fuliginosus [Sooty Woodpecker]](https://www.gop.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JO57433-Hachisuka-1934-Lichtensteinipicus-fuliginosus-600x750.webp)
![Batrachostomus Septimus pl. 2 [Frogmouth]](https://www.gop.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JO6368-Tweeddale-1881-Batrachostomus-Septimus-600x750.webp)