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George Edwards: The Bedell and his Birds

2 December 2005 - 22 April 2006

The Long-Tail’d Green Huming BirdThe Long-Tail’d Green Huming Bird
A Natural History of Birds (1743) Volume 1, plate 33

© Royal College of Physicians of London

‘The Tail-feathers are of the most shining Beauty that can be imagined, appearing sometimes of a shining Blue-colour, and upon a little turn will change Greenish, then again into a Colour mixed with a bright golden Splendour…This bird was brought from Jamaica by Capt. Chandler at Stepney of whom I procur’d leave to take a drawing of it’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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