White-legged Oyster-catcher. Slender-billed Oyster-catcher (Plate CCCCXXVII) Hæmatopus bachmani. Hæmatopus townsendi

AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BY ROBERT HAVELL White-legged Oyster-catcher. Slender-billed Oyster-catcher (Plate CCCCXXVII) Hæmatopus bachmani. Hæmatopus townsendi engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1838, on J Whatman Turkey Mill watermark 1838, with margins (slightly trimmed), light-, mat and time staining, a few reverse foxmarks in the subject, occasional pale foxing and soft handling creases, a few short tears and minute paper losses in places at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition, framed P. 21½ x 27 1/8 in. (546 x 689 mm.) S. 25½ x 38 in. (648 x 965 mm.)