Broinowski - Torres Strait's Tern and Bass Strait's Tern
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Thalasseus Cristatus. Torres Strait's Tern. Thalasseus Poliocercus. Bass Strait's Tern.'
Broinowski was a Polish artist and ornithologist who arrived in Victoria c1857. From 1887 - 1891 he published 'The Birds of Australia' which contained about 300 chromolithographs.
Break in paper at bottom coming into title area by about 1cm.