Artist François-Nicolas Martinet (1739–1797) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Nicolas_Martinet
Description
Fregilupus varia
Date 1700-1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Buffon VI p. 512 pl. 697
Old Latin name Fregilupus varia
New Latin name Fregilupus varius
Common name Nederlands: Hopspreeuw
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fregilupus_varia_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15800173.tif
The hoopoe starling, also known as the Réunion starling or Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius), is a species of starling which lived on the Mascarene island of Réunion, and became extinct in the 1850s. |
