File:Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (Audubon plate).jpeg

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Zoological illustration from a volume of articles, The Passenger Pigeon, 1907 (Mershon, editor). The caption reads: "PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba Migratoria) / Upper bird, female; lower, male /

Reproduced from the John J. Audubon Plate"
Date Print date, 1907
Source Obtained from online scan at passengerpigeon00mers
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John James Audubon  (1785–1851)  wikidata:Q182882 s:en:Author:John James Audubon q:en:John James Audubon
 
John James Audubon
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Birth name: Jean-Jacques-Fougère Audubon
Description American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter and painter
Date of birth/death 26 April 1785 Edit this at Wikidata 27 January 1851 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Les Cayes (Haiti) New York City
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