<p>"Black Emus of Kangaroo Island".
</p><p>The large bird is thought to be based on a Kangaroo Island emu, and the small one on the King Island emu, but were thought to be a male and female of the same species at the time.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0260954109001661">[1]</a>
</p><p>The original hand coloured copper engraving was engraved by F. Lambert after paintings and drawings by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur who was the offical artist of natural history on the Nicholas Baudin Voyage 1800-1804 for 'Péron, François (1775-1810).
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Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes ..., sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et al goëlette la Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris: De L'Imprimerie impériale, 1807-16.
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, F. Lambert
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