Mulsant & Verreaux. [Purple-backed thornbill Hummingbird] Ramphomicron Microrhynchus. 1874. 1016-B 18 7/8" x 14" vellum

18 7/8" x 14" vellum

It is said for certain in the Antilles that a traveler who has the misfortune to fall asleep under a manchineel tree never wakes up again

was apparently based on the first state of the 1723 Burgis view

who would later serve as chief of engineering for the construction of the Northern Pacific

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Mulsant & Verreaux. [Purple-backed thornbill Hummingbird] Ramphomicron Microrhynchus. 1874. 1016-B 18 7/8" x 14" vellumMulsant & Verreaux [Purple backed thornbill Hummingbird] Ramphomicron Microrhynchus from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, ou Colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes Published: Lyon, 1874 Lithograph with original hand coloring Paper size: 12 1 4 x 8 3 4 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, ou Colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes (The Natural History of Hummingbirds constituting the Trochilidae family) was published in 1874 by