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Title	Columba capite albo
Description	Hand-colored copper engraving of a "white-crown'd pigeon" (Columba leucocephala), with the "cocoa plum" ("Frutex cotini fere folio crasso", or Chrysobalanus icaco) shrub in the background. Scanned from plate 25 in volume one of Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands, published in London by the author in 1731.
Subject (lcsh)	White-crowned pigeon Chrysobalanus icaco
Geographic Subject	islands: Bahama Islands
Illustrator	Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.
Publisher (of the Digital Version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1731
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 plate, plate 25 in book
Format (aat)	art
Language	English Latin
Call Number	QH41.C38 1731 V.1
Legacy Record ID	rbm-m40
Part of collection	Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
Part of subcollection	Science
Part of Book	Catesby, Mark. Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands. London, 1731
Rights	Public domain
Access Conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository Name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository Email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	rbm-Catesby-v1-pl25
Archival file	rbm_Volume9/rbm-Catesby-v1-pl25.tiff