Mulsant & Verreaux. [Bearded mountaineer Hummingbird] Oreonymphia Nobilis. 1874. hand-colored or Blue-winged Teals

or Blue-winged Teals

Mulsant & Verreaux [Ruby-topaz Hummingbird] Chrysolampis Mosquitus

32 ½” x 41 5/8”) floating and glazed

His maps are considered some of the finest examples of 17th-century cartography

in order to avoid a conflict with Spain

Mulsant & Verreaux. [Bearded mountaineer Hummingbird] Oreonymphia Nobilis. 1874. hand-colored or Blue-winged TealsMulsant & Verreaux [Bearded mountaineer Hummingbird] Oreonymphia Nobilis from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, ou Colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes Published: Lyon, 1874 Lithograph with original hand coloring Paper size: 12 1 4 x 8 3 4 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches, ou Colibris constituant la famille des Trochildes (The Natural History of Hummingbirds constituting the Trochilidae family) was published in 1874 by prominent