A plate accompanying the description of the bird "<i>Centropsar mirus</i>"  by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Lutley_Sclater" class="extiw" title="en:Philip Lutley Sclater">Philip Lutley Sclater</a> in the <i>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London</i> of 1874. Sclater later found that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/type_specimen" class="extiw" title="en:type specimen">type specimen</a> was a made-up specimen, a finding he announced to a meeting of the Zoological Society on 1 June the next year. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=article&amp;did=HistSciTech.Nature18750610.i0013&amp;id=HistSciTech.Nature18750610&amp;isize=M"><i>Nature</i> of 10 June</a> reports on this meeting "Mr. Sclater exhibited the typical specimen of his <i>Centropsar mirus</i> (P.Z.S. 1874, p. 175, Pl. xxvi.), and stated that on a more careful examination of it he had come to the conclusion that it was a made-up skin."
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Joseph_Smit" class="extiw" title="w:en:Joseph Smit"><span title="Dutch natural history illustrator">Joseph Smit</span></a>
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1874
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen74zool#page/n251/mode/1up">web</a>)