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'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] mb-height 490 MaharashtraOrnithological study showing a side view of the Red necked phalarope (here described as Tringa hyperborea, modern taxonomy Phalaropus lobatus), shown standing on a small grassy hillock surrounded by water. Plate 20 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper left "Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. XX." Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal