Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Hummingbird Diorama, a superb high quality mixed diorama of forty two


Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Hummingbird Diorama, a superb high quality mixed diorama of forty two various Hummingbirds, to include - Rufous Throated Sapphire, Long-tailed Sylph, Purple-throated Carib, Bearded Mountaineer, Collared Inca, Frilled Coquette, Crimson Topaz, Ruby Topaz, Black Jacobin, Lond-tailed Sylph, Long-tailed Hermit, Purple-crowned Fairy, Black-bellied Thorntail, Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, Emerald Hummingbird, Violet-eared Hummingbird, all mounted upon lichen encrusted branches, above moss, lichen and painted soil groundwork beneath, enclosed within a later oak framed five-glass display case, 78cm by 19.5cm by 51.5cm upper glass section later, base and groundwork original to specimens within.


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