- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Skin of a hummingbird. [El.B 12/12/2008]
- Long description
- Skin of a hummingbird. The plumage is metallic blue-green on the breast, metallic green on the back, with dark blue-green tailfeathers. The beak is damaged, with a black upper mandible and yellow lower mandible. [El.B 12/12/2008]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1943
- Date collected
- By 1943
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1943
- Materials and processes
- Material Bird
- Dimensions
- Length: max 85 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1943.11.8
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