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Upupa Epops
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CA RBD MSG BW007-3
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1811 (Creation)
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1 illustration : colour, watercolour and gouache ; 35.5 x 29.2 cm
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(1749-1819)
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Item consists of a colour illustration, possibly a hand-coloured cut-and-paste engraving painted over, of a hoopoe poised on a Kamala orange branch next to a butterfly in flight, with identification, description, and two lines of verse written in pen in contemporary hand: Upupa Epops, Buff. Hodod, Hind. A beautiful variety of the Indian Sultana; On the Comlah, or Chinese Orange, from Aurung-abad. Drawn in 1767. Copied 1811.
Baskets, which golden Comlahs held,/
Like Topazes with Amrit* swell'd.
(*Nectar)
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Version also found in copy at Yale featuring hoopoe on a different tree.
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Current binomial(s): (Gruiformes: Gruidae)
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Source of name "Comlah" unknown [Sanksrit कमला kamalā can be used to describe an orange according to Apte, The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, p. 533].