[Pacific Baza (Aciveda subcristata)]

by EVERARD, J. after John GOULD

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Book desription: Original watercolour, by J. Everard. Laid paper. Inscribed in ink on verso `Lepidogenys Subcristatus/ Crested Hawk/ Orig. drawing by J. Everard'. 21 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches. A fine quality original watercolour of this beautiful Australian hawk. The Pacific Baza is also known as the Cuckoo Falcon, or Crested Hawk. It was by this latter name that it was pictured in John Gould's Birds of Australia (London: 1840-1848) as plate 25. The present watercolour is an excellent copy of this plate by an artist of some considerable ability who is otherwise unrecorded. The 13 sub-species of Pacific Baza ensure that it is quite wide-ranging: from north and northeastern Australia up to New Guinea, the Moluccas, Sulawesi and various other Indonesian islands. This relatively small hawk (here shown somewhat large than life) feeds mainly on insects found in trees and is less shy of humans than many raptors Cf. Gould Birds of Australia 1840-1848, vol.I, pl.25.

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