Bee Eater Collection

Paradise riflebird and blue-throated bee-eater
Paradise riflebird, Ptiloris paradiseus, and blue-throated bee-eater, Merops viridis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Little bee-eater, Merops pusillus (Red-winged bee-eater, Merops erythropterus). Africa. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester

Rainbow bee-eater, Merops ornatus (Variegated bee-eater). Australia. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Golden-fronted leafbird, Chloropsis aurifrons. (Hurruwa bee-eater, India.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Red-throated bee-eater, Merops bulocki (Blue-bellied bee-eater, Merops cyanogaster). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Swallow-tailed bee-eater, Merops hirundineus (Fork-tailed, blue-vented bee-eater, Merops hirundinaceus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William

Northern carmine bee-eater, Merops nubicus (Blue-headed bee-eater, Merops caeruleocephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Blue-cheeked bee-eater, Merops persicus (Merops savigni). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Red-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis amictus, and fungoid bryozoan, Plumatella fungosa. Alcemerope, Alcyonelle. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque

Smiths bee-eater, Merops puella. Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in William Bullocks Museum from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by

Blue-throated bee-eater, Merops viridis viridis (Sumatra bee-eater, Merops sumatranus). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H

Merops ornatus, Latham collection Vol. 3, f368

Collection of mixed dead birds
Plate 65, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Merops apiaster, European bee-eater
Plate 144 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Merops leschenaulti, chestnut-headed bee-eater
Plate 33, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Collection of birds feathers
Plate 25 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Merops albicollis, white-throated bee-eater
Watercolour by Chloe Elizabeth Talbot Kelly (1960)

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