“Shore plover and Chatham Island snipe”
Original chromolithograph from
IBIS, 1893, Plate XV.
The International Journal of Avian Science published by the British Ornithologists’ Union.
Published continuously since 1859.
Link to New Zealand Antique Prints site: IBIS
| a colony of | IBISES |
| a congregation of | IBISES |
| a stand of | IBISES |
| a wedge of | IBISES |
| a rarity of (bald) | IBISES |
| a flush of (scarlet) | IBISES |
| a whitness of (white) | IBISES |
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