{"id":1008,"date":"2012-11-06T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2012-11-06T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T20:49:00","slug":"cuviers-regulus-audubon-bird-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/11\/06\/cuviers-regulus-audubon-bird-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuvier&#8217;s Regulus (Audubon &#8220;Bird of the Week&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_2434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1009\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_2434-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_2434-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_2434-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_2434.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I have named this pretty and rare species after Baron Cuvier, not merely by way of acknowledgement for the kind attentions which I have received at the hands of that deservedly celebrated naturalist, but more as a homage due by every student of nature to one at present unrivalled in the knowledge of General Zoology.<\/p>\n<p>I shot the bird represented in the Plate, on my father-in-law&#8217;s plantation of Flatland Ford, on the Skuylkill River in Pennsylvania, on the 8th June, 1812, while on a visit to my honored relative Mr. William Bakewell . . . I have not seen another since, nor have I been able to learn that this species has been observed by any other individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013J. J. Audubon, <em>Ornithological Biography<\/em>, I (1831), 288 [excerpted].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have named this pretty and rare species after Baron Cuvier, not merely by way of acknowledgement for the kind attentions which I have received at the hands of that deservedly celebrated naturalist, but more as a homage due by every student of nature to one at present unrivalled in the knowledge of General Zoology. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}