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Manorina melanophrys, bell minerPlate 80, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)
Riparia riparia, sand martinPlate 128 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Carduelis carduelis, European goldfinchPlate 155 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Oenanthe oenanthe, northern wheatearPlate 187 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Cuculus canorus, common cuckooPlate 139 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Thraupis bonariensis darwinii, blue-and-yellow tanagerHand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41). This is not one of Darwins finches
Miliaria calandra, corn buntingPlate 154 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Podogymnura truei, Mindanao gymnureVentral view of a male Mindanao gymnure skin specimen, collected from Mount Apo, Mindanao, Philippines
Northiella haematogaster, bluebonnetSpecimen of a bluebonnet (Northiella haematogaster). It inhabits inland regions of south-east Australia
Motacilla alba yarrelli, pied wagtailPlate 130 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Lichenostomus keartlandi, grey-fronted honeyeaterPlate 40, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)
Certhia familiaris, Eurasian treecreeperPlate 145 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Pitangus sulphuratus, great kiskadeeA male specimen of the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) held at the Natural History Museum at Tring
Plate 29 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand BauerGaston Tissandier. Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist, Gaston Tissandier. Date between 1880 and 1900
Amandava amandava, red avadavatWatercolour by Frederick Ditmas (c. 1840)
Melanochlora sultanea, sultan titPlate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 2, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
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
Brachaluteres jacksonianus, southern pygmy leatherjacketPlate 28 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This is a small compressed fish with no pelvic fins and a prominent dorsal spine
Aethopyga gouldiae, Mrs Goulds sunbirdPlate 26 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 2, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
Halcyon leucocephala, grey-headed kingfisherFf. 60. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Alcedo cancrophaga made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Pitta maxima, ivory-breasted pittaPlate 27 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 4 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph
Pteridophora alberti, King of Saxony bird-of-paradisePlate 38 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, Vol. 1 (1891-98)
Trogon citreolus, citreoline trogonPlate 4, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould, from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trogonid, or family of Trogons, 2nd Edition, (1858-1875)
HummingbirdPlate 337, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould
Heliothrix aurita phainolaemus, black-eared fairyPlate 215, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould
Sephanoides sephanoides, green-backed firecrownPlate 265, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould
Mene maculata, moonfishSpecimen jar containing the curiously shaped moonfish (Mene maculata). This schooling, deep-water, marine fish is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region
Garrulax cachinnans, nilgiri laughing thrushPlate 1, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Hypothymis azurea, black-naped monarchPlate 7, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Loriculus vernalis, vernal hanging parrotPlate 8, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Dicrurus caerulescens, white-bellied drongoPlate 9, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Prinia inornata, plain priniaPlate 17, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Copsychus saularis, Oriental magpie-robinPlate 27, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Turdoides striatus malabaricus, jungle babblerPlate 34, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Parus spilonotus, yellow cheeked titPlate 40, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Pomatorhinus horsfieldi, Indian scimitar babblerPlate 3, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Motacilla maderaspatensis, white-browed wagtailPlate 8, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Iduna rama, Sykes warblerPlate 9, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Zosterops palpebrosus, oriental white-eyePlate 12, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Acridotheres fuscus, jungle mynaPlate 10, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Prinia socialis, ashy priniaPlate 11, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Cinnyris asiatica, purple sunbirdPlate 14, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Alcedo atthis bengalensis, common kingfisherPlate 17, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Pericrocotus flammeus, scarlet minivetPlate 21, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Culicicapa ceylonensis, grey-headed canary-flycatcherPlate 24, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Cacomantis passerinus, grey-bellied cuckooPlate 27, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)
Sitta frontalis, velvet-fronted nuthatchPlate 28, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)