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Image: Laughing kookaburra plate 663 Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle

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Description: Plate showing the laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) In 1783 Johann Hermann and Pieter Boddaert both published formal descriptions of this species based on this plate.
Title: Laughing kookaburra plate 663 Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle
Credit: Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Martinet, François-Nicolas (1765–1783). Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle. Volume 7. [Paris]. Plate 663. Available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library here.
Author: Edme-Louis Daubenton (1730-1785) organised the production François-Nicolas Martinet (c. 1760-1800) engraved the print
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