AUGUSTE PELLETIER (FRENCH, FL.1800-1847) White-tailed Trogon
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AUGUSTE PELLETIER (FRENCH, FL.1800-1847) White-tailed Trogon

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AUGUSTE PELLETIER (FRENCH, FL.1800-1847)White-tailed TrogonPreparatory drawing for Francois Levaillant’s Histoire naturelle des promerops... Plate 5Watercolor and gouache over gum arabicSigned: Auguste [Pelletier]ca. 1822Paper size: 20 3/4 x 15 in Frame size: 31 x 24 1/4 in AUGUSTE PELLETIER (FRENCH, FL.1800-1847)White-tailed TrogonPreparatory drawing for Francois Levaillant’s Histoire naturelle des promerops... Plate 5Watercolor and gouache over gum arabicSigned: Auguste [Pelletier] ca. 1822Paper size: 20 3/4 x 15 in Frame size: 31 x 24 1/4 inLevaillant wrote of this bird, “There is also found in South America, and particularly in Cayenne and Surinam, a species of white-bellied couroucou which Brisson had already given as a distinct species, under the name of the green couroucou with white belly, but which Buffon, as usual, made a variety of age of the yellow-bellied couroucou. However, as we have made known the female and the young of this last species, there can be no doubt that thi

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