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1850s Hand Colored Stone Lithographs of Birds of the West Swainson's Hawk or Buteo Oxypterus
This is now considered a Swainson's Hawk but at the time of the survey in the 1850s it was considered to be a separate species, Buteo oxypterus. On the upper margin of the print it says "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys ---32nd Parallel" and "Birds --- Plate XV." The description of the bird in the survey report which wrongly identifies it says,
Fort Fillmore is about 35 miles north of El Paso, Texas, just below Les Cruces, New Mexico, a bit out of the Swainson's Hawk's normal range in the Rockies, which may have led to its misidentification. Below is the lithograph as it will come to you matted and in a protective clear plastic sleeve.
Price: SOLD
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