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Description: John Ray's Page with illustrations of the birds of Madras or Fort St. George based on the birds noted by Edward Buckley and communicated to Jacob Petiver. Joannis Raii Synopsis methodica avium & piscium : opus posthumum. The original picture (BL ADD MS 5266, ff.91-2) was made by native Indian artists (colour version in British Library) The painting in the British Library is flipped left to right compared to the book illustration. It is reproduced as Figure 2.1 in: Winterbottom, Anna (2015). "Medicine and botany in the making of Madras, 1680–1720". In Damodaran, V.; Winterbottom, A.; Lester, A. The East India Company and the Natural World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 35–57. ISBN 978-1-137-42726-7.
Title: Madras Birds
Credit: https://archive.org/stream/JoannisRaiiSyno12RayJ#page/212/mode/1up
Author: Originally by a native Indian artist
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