Antique Bird Print - Collared Flycatcher, Blue-and-white Flycatcher - F2 "Common Crane"

"Common Crane"

Vanlig Sandrulling

who was flayed alive

during the second half of the 18th century

Arthur Gardiner Butler(1844-1925) was a prominent British ornithologist and naturalist

Antique Bird Print - Collared Flycatcher, Blue-and-white Flycatcher - F2 "Common Crane""Le Gobe mouche a Gorge Brune, Le Gobe mouche a Collier, Le Petit Azur" This lovely copper engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffons Histoire naturelle, gnrale et particulire (General and specific natural history). The work was published in Paris, 1825. "Histoire Naturelle" is an extensive multi volume work authored by the French naturalist and scientist Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon ( 1707 1788). The book stands as one of the most