Travies, Edouard

Herons, bitterns, woodpeckers, whydahs and brilliant tropical birds, grouped so that their beaks, crests, tails and plumage ...

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Herons, bitterns, woodpeckers, whydahs and brilliant tropical birds, grouped so that their beaks, crests, tails and plumage can be compared, fill these prints by Édouard Traviès (1809–1876), the French natural-history illustrator. The plates come from nineteenth-century Buffon publishing and are book illustrations rather than original watercolours. Starlings and shrikes, waterbirds, birds of prey and gamebirds widen the ornithological range, with familiar European species beside exotic ones, and occasional mammal plates introduce bats, large cats and other animals. French captions preserve the names of the period.

Herons, bitterns, woodpeckers, whydahs and brilliant tropical birds, grouped so that their beaks, crests, tails and plumage can be compared, fill these prints by Édouard Traviès (1809–1876), the French natural-history illustrator. The plates come from nineteenth-century Buffon publishing and are book illustrations rather than original watercolours. Starlings and shrikes, waterbirds, birds of prey and gamebirds widen the ornithological range, with familiar European species beside exotic ones, and occasional mammal plates introduce bats, large cats and other animals. French captions preserve the names of the period.

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