Watercolour - Rufous Bristlebird, Neville William Cayley, 1936, This watercolour of the Rufous Bristlebird, Dasyornis broadbentii by Neville William Cayley depicts an adult feeding its young. This species was first described by Sir Frederick McCoy in the Annals of Natural History in 1867, where he named the species Sphenura broadbenti, Rufous Bristle Bird, in honour of the collector Kendall Broadbent who had presented the specimen to

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Watercolour - Rufous Bristlebird, Neville William Cayley, 1936, This watercolour of the Rufous Bristlebird, Dasyornis broadbentii by Neville William Cayley depicts an adult feeding its young. This species was first described by Sir Frederick McCoy in the Annals of Natural History in 1867, where he named the species Sphenura broadbenti, Rufous Bristle Bird, in honour of the collector Kendall Broadbent who had presented the specimen to

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