13. Pied Avocet
Recurvirostra avosetta

• Latin name : Recurvirostra avosetta
• Inventory number : Série 30 Feuillet 7
• Dates : Before February 1806
• Full size : H.43,1 cm ; l. 30,6 cm.
• Physical description : Pastel, graphite, ink on wove paper
• Inscriptions : 112 (ink, at upper left) Brisson Classe 2. I Ordre -26. l Sectn -2 l Genre – 112 l l’avocette – Avocetta (ink, at upper right) l’avocette (ink, at lower right)
  

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  Link to Harvard University collections :
  identical duplicate

• : L’avocette de Buffon. Near Nantes, France, ,
  

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Side view of bird in a living pose.