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Common Cuckoo and Meadow Pipit - Cuculus canorus and Anthus pratensis
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Common name: Common Cuckoo and Meadow Pipit

Scientific name: Cuculus canorus and Anthus pratensis

Accession number: 140

Materials: Watercolour on paper

When painted: July, 1832

Inscription on reverse: "Cuckoo. Cuculus canorus, and Common Pipit, Anthus pratensis. The former from a young individual shot at Salisbury Craigs, and presented by Mr Hennen. Edinburgh, July 1832. W. McG."

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