Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird Size:S: 50 x 40cm Sir John Stoddart sitting on

Sir John Stoddart sitting on a chair

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Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird Size:S: 50 x 40cm Sir John Stoddart sitting onPlate 16 from the paper 'Some acount of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 332 338. Home's paper relays observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the Edible nest switlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus). Bauer's nine figures are gullet details of these and other birds under magnification. Signed lower left