Aves Collection (page 12)

Bostrychia olivacea, Olive Ibis
Watercolour by Henrik Gronveld, c. 1910 Date: circa 1910

White-eared pheasant
Illustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: 1850

Owls and Sparrow hawk
Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 1824. Hand-coloured engraving. Date: 1824

Aix sponsa, Wood duck
Watercolour by John Abbot, 1827 Date: 1827

Mycteria ibis, Yellow-billed stork
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies, 1918 Date: 1918

Phoenicopterus roseus, Greater Flamingo
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies

Maternal Courage
Plate 14 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

Tragopan satyra; Satyr tragopan; male
Illustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: 1850

Lophura leucomelanos, Kalij pheasant
Illustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850 s. Originally titled The Kalidge Pheasant. Date: 1850

Psilopsiagon aymara, grey-hooded parakeet
Plate 32 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Long-billed black cockatoo
Plate 6 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Accipiter cirrocephalus, collared sparrowhawk
Watercolour 112 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New Holland Sparrowhawk

Falco longipennis, Australian hobby
Watercolour 105 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Lunated Falcon, Goo-roo-wang

Platycercus venustus, northern rosella
Plate 19 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

SCOTT, Georges Bertin, called Scott de Pagnolles (1873-1943). After the shipwreck. 1898. Illustration published in L Illustration on January 28, 1899. Engraving

Atlas Novus, 17th c Planet Mercury
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. Detail depicting and allegory of Mercury

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin
This emperor penguin, one of the earliest to come to Britain, was one of the many specimens collected by James Clark Ross Antarctic expedition between 1839 and 1843

Ascension, Terns and Noddies
Illustration (p.538) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adair
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin egg
Collected on the British Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition (1910 - 1913) by Edward Wilson

Key for Eggs of Paradiseidae
Key to Plate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100055 for original plate

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Agyrtria niveipectus, hummingbird display
As Curator and Preserver to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, in 1851 John Gould compiled an exhibition of stuffed hummingbirds, which were then displayed in 24 custom-made cases

Athene blewitti, forest owlet
Donated to the Museum in 1954 by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, it was discovered that he had in fact stolen the specimen from the Museum and changed its label

Group of Adeliee Penguins feeding their young
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle
A specimen of a harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Morelia spilota variegata, carpet python
Plate 2, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trogonid&, xb5;, or family of Trogons, (1838)

Cyanoramphus ulietanus, Raiatea parakeet

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1987
Wildlife Photographer of the Year advertisement poster featuring the photograph Oyster Catcher by Mike Wilkes (Winner: Animal Potraits)

St Helena
Illustration (p.517) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Darwin finch drawn for the cover of the 99% Ape publication

La fauvette a queue rousse, a red-tailed warbler
Sylvia russeicauda. Plate 70 from Vieillots Histoire naturelle de oiseaux d Amerique Central Volume 12. The Natural History of Birds from Central America

Agyrtria viridiceps, hummingbird display
As Curator and Preserver to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, in 1851 John Gould compiled an exhibition of stuffed hummingbirds which were displayed in 24 custom-made cases

Tropaeolum peregrinum, Canary bird flower
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Berkeley Sound, Falkland islands
Illustration (p.214) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Watercolour fomr the Sir Ashton Lever Collection
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the Sir Ashton Lever Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. NHML (3) 42

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor Penguin egg
Egg specimens collected during the Terra Nova expedition to Antartica

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adare
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Agyrtria brevirostris, hummingbird display
As Curator and Preserver to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, in 1851 John Gould compiled an exhibition of stuffed hummingbirds, which were displayed in 24 custom-made cases

Oceanites maorianus, New Zealand strom petrel
This skin is one of only three in the world that can prove the New Zealand storm petrel is a living species

Fregilupus varius specimen collected in Reunion

Cyanoramphus zealandicus, black-fronted parakeet
Photograph of Cyanoramphus zealndicus specimen. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2009. This species is now extinct

Clutch of eggs

Phalacrocorax perspecillatus, spectacled cormorant
Phalacrocorax perspecillatus is an extinct species of cormorant, discovered in the Bering Sea. It became extinct c. 1850

Fregilupus varius, reunion starling
The reunion starling is an extinct bird native to the Mascarenes. It became extinct c. 1860

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