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Masked Laughingthrush
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A hand-colored lithograph, produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, of the adult male Garrulax perspicillatus. It was created from William Heine's drawings of a specimen collected at Macao (now Macau) China. "Gmelin" refers to German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804), who assigned the scientific name to this bird.
1856
Heine, Wilhelm, 1871-1917
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WHi 123815
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