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25th May 1954

Joseph Chamberlain

seen here in New Orleans

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The 'summer red-bird' and the 'western plane tree' Product:Framed picture 25th May 1954'Muscicapa rubra', the summer red bird, and 'Platanus occidentalis', the western plane tree (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Piranga rubra, the summer tanager; Platanus occidentalis, the American sycamore). Plate 56 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731

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