de L'Isle, Guillaume. Carte de L Egypte, de la Nubie, De L'Abissine. Paris, ca. 1730s Cartographer_Henry Popple Unimportant to New Spain until

Unimportant to New Spain until the Louisiana Purchase brought an aggressive new neighbor to its doorstep

" although it is actually the seventh variant of the map to be issued

a geographic entity referred to by cartographers from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century

as does the vivid yellow of the tail coverts and the bright colors of the beak—leading to multiple misidentifications of species based on these changes

de L'Isle, Guillaume. Carte de L Egypte, de la Nubie, De L'Abissine. Paris, ca. 1730s Cartographer_Henry Popple Unimportant to New Spain untilGuillaume de L'Isle Carte de L Egypte, de la Nubie, De L'Abissine Paris, ca. 1730s 19 1 2" x 26"