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Julius Bien / John James Audubon
Title
Swallow-tailed Hawk. Plate 18.
Publication Place / Date
New York / 1860
Image Dimensions
29 x 22 inches (including text)
Color
Hand Colored
Condition
VG+
Stock# 81159
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Description

Attractive chromolithographed image of the Swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) grappling with a garter snake in its fearsome claws.

The plate comes from the Julius Bien edition of Audubon's Birds of America, the second large-format 19th-century edition of the most important color plate book of all time.

The Swallow-tailed Hawk, as it is referred to by Audubon, is a resident of the American Southeast and Florida, with its range extending to South America.

Audubon gives the antiquated Linnean binomial, Falco Furcatus.

Condition Description
Chromolithograph on wove paper. A few expert marginal mends.
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