Shining Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus), ‘Coucou éclatant’, from Compléments de Buffon, Races humaines et mammifères. Volume 2, Deuxième Edition
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1838 and 1840
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Private Collection
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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.
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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 August 15, 2022, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10614.
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