Antique Bird Print - Butler - Painted Finch - Emblema Nicta - London - F2 There is a handwritten signature

There is a handwritten signature on the back of the book

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Antique Bird Print - Butler - Painted Finch - Emblema Nicta - London - F2 There is a handwritten signature"Painted Finch (Emblema Nicta)" This is a beautiful antique lithograph is from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity. The work was published in London, 1899. Arthur Gardiner Butler(1844 1925) was a prominent British ornithologist and naturalist. He specialized in the study of birds, particularly exotic species, and made significant contributions to the research and description of diverse bird species worldwide. Butler authored