File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (Audubon plate, crop).jpg

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"PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria) / Upper bird, female; lower, male /

Reproduced from the John J. Audubon Plate"
Date

Lithograph by J. T. Bowen after a painting by John James Audubon in Pennsylvania, 1824.
Source https://archive.org/stream/birdsofamericafr05audu#page/n39/mode/2up
Author
John James Audubon  (1785–1851)  wikidata:Q182882 s:en:Author:John James Audubon q:en:John James Audubon
 
John James Audubon
Alternative names
Birth name: Jean-Jacques-Fougère Audubon
Description American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter and painter
Date of birth/death 26 April 1785 Edit this at Wikidata 27 January 1851 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Les Cayes (Haiti) New York City
Work location
Louisville, New Orleans, New York City, Florida
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q182882


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00:58, 4 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 00:58, 4 January 20101,876 × 2,414 (1.93 MB)Cygnis insignis{{Information |Description= Zoological illustration from a volume of articles, ''The Passenger Pigeon'', 1907 (Mershon, editor). The caption reads: "PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria) / Upper bird, female; lower, male / Reproduced from the John J. Audu

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