Bowdler Sharpe’s lithograph
Bowdler Sharpe’s lithograph of the Great Bowerbird from Sharpe, R.D. (1891-1898), Monograph of the Paradisaeidae or Birs of Paradise, and Ptilorhynchidaae or Bower-bird. Parts 1-8. London: H. Southern and Co.
In Michael Everett’s book (where this is scanned from) it is reproduced this way around but most often its reproduced as a mirror image.
Everett, Michael (1978). The birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Adelaide: Rigby
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