Post mortem of a trained cormorant named 'Hobblegobble': partial dissection showing the head and stomach. Watercolour by F.H. Salvin, 1876.

  • Salvin, Francis Henry.
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1876
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565719i
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Post mortem of a trained cormorant named 'Hobblegobble': partial dissection showing the head and stomach. Watercolour by F.H. Salvin, 1876. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1876

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1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 55.1 x 77.2 cm

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'Hobblegobble', a trained cormorant aged 8 or 9. This bird had been lame through life from tumours on the pad or cushion of each foot which I think had been originally caused by feeding it on meat when young. It died suddenly, March 20th 1876. F.H. Salvin Lettering (hand-written in pencil by F.H. Salvin) includes annotated parts of the bird's anatomy

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Wellcome Collection 565719i

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F.H. Salvin (1817-1904) was an authority on falconry and a student of animal behaviour. He lived in Surrey, and was the owner of Sutton Place (Oxford dictionary of national biography)

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