30. Barn Owl
Tyto alba

  • Latin name : Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769)
  • Inventory number : Série 32 Feuillet 5
  • Dates : Before February 1806
  • Full size : H. 83 ,4 cm ; l. 34,8 cm format portrait
  • Physical description : Pastel, graphite, ink on laid paper
  •  Inscriptions : fresaye (ink, at the right of  center)
    a la Gerbetière le 1805 (graphite, along the edge of left wing)
  • Link to Harvard University collections  :
    non-identical duplicate
  •  : Variete de L’Effraie ou fressaie (?) Male de Buffon. Variety of white owl. N.p., , n.d.

Bird hanging by the right wing to a branch. Unique example of a bird of France depicted dead and hanging.