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View full screenUpucerthia dumetaria, Chillian earthcreaper or scaly-throated earthcreeper, collected on Charles Darwin's voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1835, from Coquimbo, Chile, 1835
Z.1931.76.10
species: Upucerthia dumetaria I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832 - Scaly-throated Earthcreeper
Specimen form: Mount
Coquimbo, Chile, South America
Collector: Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809 - 1882
Collector: Covington, Syms, 1835 (fl.)
HMS Beagle
Previous owner: British Museum (Natural History)
Discoveries Redisplay, 2015
Discoveries (29 Jul 2011 - 2016)
National Museum of Scotland
F.D. Steinheimer (2004) Charles Darwin’s bird collection and ornithological knowledge during the voyage of HMS Beagle, 1831-1835, Journal of ornithology 145: 300-320. In a 40 page appendix, ‘Charles Darwin’s bird collection from the voyage of the HMS Beagle’, available online, http://www.do-g.de, ‘journals’ and at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=A161&pageseq=1
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