Shining Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus), ‘Coucou éclatant’, from Compléments de Buffon, Races humaines et mammifères. Volume 2, Deuxième Edition

Date

1838 and 1840

Identifier

Private Collection

Type

Engraving

Publisher

Paris: Pourrat Frères

Abstract

The lower of these two birds is the Shining cuckoo, which Lesson calls Coucou éclatant. Lesson may have known the bird’s Māori name – Pīpīwharauroa – but he left it off the engraving.

Files

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Citation

René Primevère Lesson, “Shining Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus), ‘Coucou éclatant’, from Compléments de Buffon, Races humaines et mammifères. Volume 2, Deuxième Edition,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed April 20, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10614.