Orangequit
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The orangequit is a species of passerine bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is endemic to Jamaica.
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Male at Negril
Male at Geejam
Female at Negril
George Edwards (naturalist)
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George Edwards was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".
Orangequit
…tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla campestris. Linnaeus based his description on the "American Hedge-Sparrow" that George Edwards had described and illustrated in his 1750 work, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, from a specimen collected in Jamaica. The species was moved to the…
Engraving by John Miller after a Bartholomew Dandridge portrait, 1754
Royal College of Physicians in Warwick Lane in 1677. The entrance to the beadle's house is the second door on the left. Engraved by David Loggan.
Plate 5: "The Black Parrot from Madagascar" now the lesser vasa parrot (Coracopsis nigra)
Plate 23: "The Red-Headed Green-Finch" now the bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola)