Laughing Gull. [Pl. 89, Vol. I].
London: printed for Benjamin White, 1771. Hand-colored copper engraving, on fine laid paper. Sheet size 13 x 18 in. [Third edition]. Condition : bottom margin trimmed, about 2" remaining, uneven. A small distinctive coastal gull, laughing gulls, Catesby explains, "are numerous in most of the Bahama Islands. The noise they make has some resemblance to laughing, from which they seem to take their name…" (Feduccia, Catesby's Birds of Colonial America (1985), p. 45).
Laughing Gull. [Pl. 89, Vol. I].
London: printed for Benjamin White, 1771. Hand-colored copper engraving, on fine laid paper. Sheet size 13 x 18 in. [Third edition]. Condition : bottom margin trimmed, about 2" remaining, uneven. A small distinctive coastal gull, laughing gulls, Catesby explains, "are numerous in most of the Bahama Islands. The noise they make has some resemblance to laughing, from which they seem to take their name…" (Feduccia, Catesby's Birds of Colonial America (1985), p. 45).
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