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Tadorna cana, South African shelduckFf. 70. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas montana and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Anas superciliosa, Pacific black duck
Aythya novaeseelandiae, New Zealand scaupFf. 79. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Anas atricilla and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Somateria spectabilis, king eiderPlate 276 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Workers at Piltdown
Aythya collaris, ring-necked duckPlate 234 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Lophonetta specularoides, crested duckFf. 78. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas lophyra cristata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Melanitta fusca, white-winged scoterPlate 247 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Anas georgica, yellow-billed pintailFf. 71. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas xanthorynchus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Tadorna variegata, Paradise shelduckFf. 67. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Anas Cheneros and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Biziura lobata, musk duckPlate 18, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.7, (1840-1848)
Branta canadensis, Canada goose (detail of head)Plate 92, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Lophodytes cucullatus, hooded merganserPlate 94, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Somatera mollissma, common eiderPlate 7 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Bucephala albeola, buffleheadPlate 98, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Anas bahamensis, white-cheeked pintailPlate 93, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Aix falericulata, mandarin duckWatercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever
Still Searching At PiltdownA general impression of the Piltdown Gravel Pit, East Sussex c. 1913, with the goose Chipper, and from left to right, Venus Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward, Charles Dawson
Ornithorhynchus anatinus, duck-billed platypusPlate 13 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803
Anas acuta, northern pintailPlate 227 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Branta canadensis, Canada goosePlate 201 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Chleophaga hybrida, kelp gooseFf. 66. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas ganta Anas antarctica and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Anas capensis, Cape tealFf. 75. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas assimilis and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Anser caerulescens, snow goosePlate 381 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swanPlate 376 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Polysticta stelleri, Stellers eiderPlate 429 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Melanitta nigra, black scoterPlate 408 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Camptorhynchus labradorius, Labrador duckPlate 332 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Clangula hyemalis, long-tailed duckPlate 312 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Branta leucopsis, barnacle goosePlate 296 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Aythya americana, redheadPlate 322 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Anas americana, American widgeonPlate 345 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Histrionicus histrionicus, harlequin duckPlate 297 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Melanitta perspicillata, surf scoterPlate 317 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Anas platyrhynchos x strepera, hybrid mallard x gadwallPlate 338 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Anas strepera, gadwallPlate 348 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Aythya valisineria, canvasbackPlate 301 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Anas rubripes, American black duckPlate 302 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Anas clypeata, northern shovelerPlate 327 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Bucephala islandica, Barrows goldeneyePlate 403 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Mergus serrator, red-breasted merganserPlate 401 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Branta bernicla, brent goosePlate 391 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Tadorna cristata, crested shelduckWatercolour by Shigeru Kobayashi (c. 1920)
Anser brachyhynchus, pink-footed gooseWatercolour and ink by John Gould (c. 1865). An example of a prelliminary work by Gould in preparation for an illustration which would be published in one of his books