Richmond Birdwing Recovery Network Inc.

The name Richmond Birdwing rose to prominence when G. A.
Waterhouse used it in his classic book of 1932, What Butterfly is that?
which dominated Australian butterfly literature for thirty years and still
exerts a powerful influence. However Richmond Birdwing is probably a
made-up English name not a common name in the sense of a name
developing in the vernacular language of the region in which the butterfly
occurs.
References.
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Daley, L. T. (1966). Men and a River. Richmond River district 1828-1895.
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Earnshaw, B., Hughes, J. and Davidson, L. (1993) Fanny to William. The
letters of Frances Leonora Macleay 1812-1836. Historic Houses
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