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Nests of the Baya with the Mahudavi Creeper
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CA RBD MSG BW007-4
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approximately 1811 (Creation)
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1 illustration (watercolour and gouache with pencil): colour (watercolour); 29.8 x 24.1 cm
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(1749-1819)
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Item consists of colour illustration of hoopoe perched on a Madhavi lata, or rangoon creeper, with caption in contemporary hand. Additional later pencil notes provide the additional identification "Baya Weaver Bird (Ploceus baya)" and indicate that the image corresponds to Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, 1813, volume 1, page 48.
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See a copy of the published plate in the British Library with caption: Different Nests of the Baya with the Ipomen, or Mhadavi, Creeper. Drawn on Stone by J. Forbes 1811. A version also exists at Yale.
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Contains extensive notes by Casey A. Wood and Henry Mousely on verso (1927 and 1932), regarding the attribution to James Forbes.
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With stamp: Dr. Casey Wood, Author's Club, London, S. W. L. England.
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Current binomial(s): Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis (Linnaeus, 1758))
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Note on names: "Rangoon creeper" (not among notes, name apparently supplied by cataloguer) is applied to Combretum indicum but the leaves appear different to those depicted here. Madhavi lata (suggested by Forbes' note on the image) is Hiptage benghalensis, again the leaves are quite different to those depicted here.