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Pied Wagtail by George Rankin
Hamilton Conrad and His Wonder Pigeons Date: early 20th century
EIDER (MORRIS)EIDER (Somateria mollissima) Mollissima means very soft, and this birds down is favoured for bedding. Date: 1851
Misfitz - Alice in Wonderland. early 20th century
Two chicks in a plantpot on a cutout greetings cardTwo chicks nestling in a plantpot on a cutout greetings card -- Confidences. Date: circa 1890s
Life on a North Sea trawler -- distant view of a trawler at sea, with seagulls circling for food. Date: 1960s
Alexander Pope - English poets houseAlexander Pope (1688-1744) - English poets house on the River Thames at Twickenham circa 1780
Society women at Cowes Week 1907During early August, society gathered on the Solent for regattas and royalty. Two women wearing white linen and blue serge sailor styles suits. 1907
Animals and birds singing round a piano on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the pack of cards, as the courtroom scene disintegrates at the end of the story. Date: early 20th century
Monkey-eating / Philippine Eagle - in tree (Pithecophaga jefferyi). Philippines
Blue and Yellow MACAWS / Blue and Gold macaws - X2 preening (Ara ararauna). Taman Burning Bali Bird Park, Bali Island, Indonesia
Eagle Owl - with prey - forest glade of Ural Mountains (Bubo bubo). Russia - winter snow
The Eggs of British Birds -- assorted eggs of different colours and sizes. Date: 1894
Aerial view of Heathrow Airport circa 1982, showing the then proposed site of Terminal 5 on the Perry Oaks Sludge Works. Date: 1982
Regulus regulus, goldcrest nest and eggsPlate 66 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)
Dendrocopos major, great spotted woodpeckerPlate 26 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Phoenicurus phoenicurus, P. ochruros, Luscinia megarhynchosPlate 4 from Archibald Thorburns first edition of British Birds, Vol.1 (1915)
Cacatua moluccensis, salmon-crested cockatooPlate 2 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph
Perdix perdix, grey partridgePlate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Phalacrocorax aristotelis, European shagPlate 53 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Aegithalos caudatus, long-tailed titPlate 28 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Circus aeruginosus, marsh harrierPlate 73 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)
BoobyA pencil sketch from the Drawings Collection of Thomas Malie (1726-42)
Raphus cucullatus, dodoA mounted specimen of the extinct flightless bird, the dodo (Raphus cucullatus). The dodo lived on the island of Mauritius and became extinct during the late 1600s
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)
Psephotus dissimilis, hooded parrotPlate 14 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)
Lanius ludovicianus, loggerhead shrikePlate 57 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Charadrius melodus, piping ploverPlate 220 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
Toxostoma rufum, brown thrasherPlate 116 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Chlamydera nuchalis, great bowerbirdPlate 30 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, Vol. 2 (1891-98)
Anas platyrhynchos, mallardPlate 221 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
Corvus brachyrhynchos, American crowPlate 156 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Sitta canadensis, red-breasted nuthatchPlate 105 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Dacelo novaeguineae, laughing kookaburraDrawing No. 57, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection
Gallirallus philippensis, buff-banded railDrawing No. 45, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection
A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, curIllustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)
KingfisherPlate 336, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Crested kingfisher
Plate from The Natural History of Carolina by Mark CatesbyIllustration from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol 1 by Mark Catesby (1683-1749)
Sterna antillarum, least ternPlate 319 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
Oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy duckPlate 343 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
Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpeckerPlate 389 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
Austalian estrildid finchesAn illustration by M. W. Woodcock of some Australian estrildids, published in Derek Goodwins Estrildid Finches of the World (1982). Page 96, Plate 2
Erithacus rubecula, European robinWatercolour by Paul Barruel (c. 1970). From Birds The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick, 2004
Mallard ducks and ducklingsA family of mallard ducks and ducklings enjoying an outing to the river. Date: circa early 20th century
Goldfinch-Bullfinch hybridsFour birds on a perch. Artist: May Bowley Date: 1936
Petticoat Lane, London - Birds eye viewBirds eye view of stalls on Petticoat Lane, London. A street clothes market on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street. Secondhand clothes
Falconry : Showing OffA proud falconer shows off his falcon, holding it up in the air on his protective gauntlet glove. Date: 1930s