RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821-1902). Watercolour for Gould's The Birds of Asia of Orange-bellied Flowerpeckers, Dicaeum dorsale, Dicaeum trigonostigma (Scopoli) [c.1875]. (534 x 356mm). Pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour gum arabic. Numbered '2.37.a' and inscribed on the mount: 'Gould Dicaeum dorsali Yellow-throated Dicaeum'. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR FOR GOULD'S THE BIRDS OF ASIA . The specimens came from Panay, Philippine Islands, and were found by Dr J.B. Steere (1842-1940) 'on the highest part of the island, in the remains of the virgin forest on the highest range of the mountains west of Iloilo'. Steere travelled in the Philippines in 1874-1875 and lent Gould these type specimens before he returned to America and to take up a Professorship at the University of Michigan. Richard Bowdler Sharpe named this flowerpecker dorsale after the red spot on the male specimen's back. The birds are depicted lifesize, measuring approximately 9 centimeters. R.B. Sharpe Transactions of the Linnean Society , Second Series, Zoology I, part 5, 1876.
RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821-1902). Watercolour for Gould's The Birds of Asia of Orange-bellied Flowerpeckers, Dicaeum dorsale, Dicaeum trigonostigma (Scopoli) [c.1875]. (534 x 356mm). Pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour gum arabic. Numbered '2.37.a' and inscribed on the mount: 'Gould Dicaeum dorsali Yellow-throated Dicaeum'. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR FOR GOULD'S THE BIRDS OF ASIA . The specimens came from Panay, Philippine Islands, and were found by Dr J.B. Steere (1842-1940) 'on the highest part of the island, in the remains of the virgin forest on the highest range of the mountains west of Iloilo'. Steere travelled in the Philippines in 1874-1875 and lent Gould these type specimens before he returned to America and to take up a Professorship at the University of Michigan. Richard Bowdler Sharpe named this flowerpecker dorsale after the red spot on the male specimen's back. The birds are depicted lifesize, measuring approximately 9 centimeters. R.B. Sharpe Transactions of the Linnean Society , Second Series, Zoology I, part 5, 1876.
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