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1923.88.368

Skin of a cock-of-the-rock. [El.B 12/12/2008]

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1923.88.368

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Collection type
Object
Description
Skin of a cock-of-the-rock. [El.B 12/12/2008]
Long description
Skin of a cock-of-the-rock. The plumage is bright red, grey and black on the wings and with a black tail. Over the beak is a crest of soft feathers. [El.B 12/12/2008]
Person
Field collector Ronald Hawkesby Thomas
PRM source Ronald Hawkesby Thomas
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1924
Date collected
By 1924
Acquisition information
Donated: 1924
Materials and processes
Material Bird Skin, Process Stuffed
Dimensions
Length: max 290 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1923.88.368
Research and responses

The current name of this bird is Andean Cock-of-the-rock, Rupicola peruvianus. This specimen is a male. [El.B 12/12/2008]

Cock-of-the-rock is either of two species of brilliantly coloured birds of tropical South America, usually included in the family Cotingidae (order Passeriformes) but sometimes placed in a family of their own, Rupicolidae. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 5/4/2001]

Related Documents File - Letter from Ronald Hawksby Thomas to Henry Balfour, dated 6 November, 1922, giving the route of his journey through 'the Alio [?sic], Maranon, Santiago and Morona rivers and that area'. List of 'Curios to Oxford' (2 pages), and notes on 'The Indian Tribes of the Northern Oriental Region of Peru' [signed R. H. Thomas, 10.11.22] and list of 'Huambisa or Aguaruna Vocabulary (9 pages). [GI 20/11/2001].

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