'N.S.W. Cassowary' [gizzard] Size:M: 50 x 40cm A couple on a motor

A couple on a motor scooter

with handwritten annotation 'A kind of Skate or Flair / Raja Oxyrhynchus major / An Bos antiquorum'

'Bob and The Bobby

Kirschvogel

'N.S.W. Cassowary' [gizzard] Size:M: 50 x 40cm A couple on a motorPlate 5, from the paper 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the Ardea argala, the Casuarius emu, and the long legged Casowary from New South Wales', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 77 81. View of the gizzard of the Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) of New South Wales, Australia. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details in ink, repeated in pencil.