Bird Of Paradise Collection

Strelitzea sp. bird of paradise flower
Plate 911 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Strelitzia sp
Watercolour by Ralph Stennett, 1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Strelitzia reginae, golden bird of paradise

Strelitzia reginae, bird of paradise
Engraving by Phelippeaux after a painting from Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840)

Strelitzia alba, white bird of paradise
Taken from Water-colour Drawings of Plants from South Africa, Canaries, Azores, West Indies and Two Views of Niagra, Francis Masson 1770-1798 Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum

Red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra. After an illustration by Rene-Primevere Lesson. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Female red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra (Paradisea rubra). After an illustration by Rene-Primevere Lesson (mislabeled juvenile male lesser bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea minor)

Lesser bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea minor (Paradisea smaragdina minor). Handcoloured steel engraving by A. Scipp after an illustration by Rene-Primevere Lesson from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes

Lobster-claw plant, Heliconia wagneriana (Heliconia aureo-striata). Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1882

Magnificent bird-of-paradise, Diphyllodes magnificus (Paradisea magnifica). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

King bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus regius, and two Suriname hummingbird species. (Le petit oiseau de Paradis, Paradisea regia, deux colibris de Surinam.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise, Seleucidis melanoleucus. Mislabeled Cape sugarbird, Promerops cafer. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard

Greater bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea apoda, and papyrus grass, Cyperus papyrus. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolphe Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Emperor and king bird-of-paradise
Emperor bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea guilielm, and king bird-of-paradise, Cicinnurus regius. Handcoloured lithograph by Burggraaff after Jean Baptiste Audebert from Th

Strelitzia regina, bird of paradise
Plate 2 from Original Drawings for Hortus Kewensis by William Aiton (1731-1793). Painting by James Sowerby 1787. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird of paradise
Image of a male and female blue bird of paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi. New Guinea. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Strelitzia reginae, bird of paradise flower
Watercolour on card, 1880-1913 by Emily J. Balston (nee Whitehead) (1848-1914). Held in the Library and Archives

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

Eggs of Paradiseidae
Plate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100056 for key

Bird-of-paradise
Plate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)

Greater Bird of Paradise
Illustration of a Greater Bird of Paradise by Eleazar Albin

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird-of-paradise
Plate 29 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, Vol.1, (1893)

Natives of Aru shooting Paradisaea apoda, greater bird-of-pa
Plate opposite page 443 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Malay Archipelago (1874)

Cicinnurus regus, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 74, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Paradisaea minor, lesser bird-of-paradise
Plate 11, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Diphyllodes magnificus x Cicinnurus regius, magnificent x ki
Plate 32 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes A Monograph of the Paradiseid, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, (1891-98)

Strelitzia reginae, Queen plant
Illustration from The Temple of Flora (1812) by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

Paradisaea regia: manucode
Plate 26 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Cicinnurus regius, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 362 from Carolus Clusius Exoticorum libri decem : quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatum, alioramque peregrinorum Fructuum Histori describuntur, (1605)

Diphyllodes sp. bird-of-paradise
Hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, (1875-1888), 2nd Edition

Diphyllodes magnificus / Cicinnurus regius, hybrid magnificen
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol.1 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Diphyllodes respublica, Wilsons bird-of-paradise
Plate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 4 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Pteridophora alberti, King of Saxony bird-of-paradise
Plate 38 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, Vol. 1 (1891-98)

Paradisaea rubra, red bird-of-paradise
Plate 6 from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rocliers, Vol.1, (1806)

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird of paradise
Image of a male blue bird of paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi. New Guinea. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Paradisaea apoda, greater bird-of-paradise
Mounted specimen of the greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda), from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Milionia paradisea

Paradisaea raggiana, raggiana bird-of-paradise
Trade skin of the Raggiana bird-of-paradise. Skins such as this were the first specimens of birds of paradise to reach Europe

Paradisaea minor, Lesser bird-of-paradise
Photograph of a lesser-bird-of-paradise specimen, held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

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