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Chough - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
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Common name: Chough

Scientific name: Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Accession number: 029

Materials: Watercolour on paper

When painted: Autumn, 1836

Inscription on reverse: "Red-legged Chough. Fregilus graculus. From a specimen lent by Mr Alexander Campbell from Mull. Edinburgh. Autumn of 1836."

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