Item Lloyd MSS 032 - Asyut, Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

1 watercolour

Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) at Asyut:

• watercolour
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 033
• 17.4 x 12.1 cm
• [on mount] 'Shot near the Nile.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '32' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Shot near Siut on the Nile. / '22 April 1843' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'It has webbed feet and / the beak is very singular. / The size is about half as / large again as the Sterna / Nilotica' (pencil note)

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