This study of a Ruby-crested Hummingbird is one of the coloured plates in William Jardine's two-volume The Natural History of Hummingbirds (1840) which is due to go under the hammer at a sale to be conducted by Dominic Winter at their premises in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on April 8. The Lot is expected to fetch between £400 and £600.

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