'Chimerina cornuta' [Rhinoceros auklet] mb-height 5000 Bonner's Hall

Bonner's Hall

This had been published by the London City Mission

This specimen is a male bird

Britain had maintained a neutral stance

made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton

'Chimerina cornuta' [Rhinoceros auklet] mb-height 5000 Bonner's HallOrnithological study of the Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) native to the Pacific coast of North America. Plate 12 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '4 5 Chimerina cornuta. E. Bomer del. M. Haas sc.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793 1831) Livonian physician,