Elliot, Daniel Giraud.
A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant-Thrushes.
New York, D. Appleton & Co., [1861-]1863.
This plate: Brachyurus Novae-Guineae.
Original hand-colored lithograph by Bowen & Co. (Philadelphia).
Sheet size approx. 21 x 14 in.

First edition. Elliot's first ornithological work with his own illustrations, and quite possibly the scarcest of his major monographs.