Capensis Collection

Bewick / Honey Badger
(mellivora capensis) aka RATEL This mustolid is so named, curiously enough, because like Pooh it is excessively fond of honey. It lives in South Africa

Jacky lashtail, Amphibolurus muricatus, and Cape dwarf gecko, Lygodactylus capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Honey badger, Mellivora capensis, and grison or South American glutton, Galictis cuja.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris

Honey badger, Mellivora capensis, and least weasel, Mustela nivalis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

Ratel or honey badger, Mellivora capensis, in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by W. Symns after an illustration by Horace S

Wolves of Hudson Bay, Canis lupus, in the Gardens of the Zoological Society, London. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by W

Homecoming procession for William Curtis, 1821
Homecoming procession for William Curtis, Lord Mayor of London, 1821. Aldermen and shopkeepers carry torches beside the carriage. Procession and Te Deum Chaunt for Sir Billy Biscuit

Yellow-fronted canary (Senegal), Crithagra mozambica caniceps (Yellow-rumped bullfinch, Crithagra chrysopyga). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John

Cape bunting, Emberiza capensis (Yellow-bellied bunting, Fringillaria capensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William John Swainson from his Birds of

Namaqua dove, Oena capensis (Ectopistes? capensis, Cape turtle). Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Edward Lear from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Meerkat and aardwolf
Meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, and aardwolf, Proteles cristata. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836

Scrawled butterflyfish and galjoen
Scrawled butterflyfish, Chaetodon meyeri, and galjoen, Dichistius capensis (Dipterodon capensis). Handcolored engraving by Sebin after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire

African clawed frog and Surinam toad
African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis 1, and Surinam toad, Pipa pipa 2. Handcolored engraving by Forget after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire

Greater striped swallow, Hirundo cucullata (Cape swallow, Hirundo capensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Blue plumbago, Plumbago auriculata
Blue plumbago or Cape leadwort, Plumbago auriculata (Plumbago capensis). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates

Ruellia, cyclamen, primrose and leadwort species
Fringe-flowered ruellia, Ruellia ciliatiflora, Persian cyclamen, Cyclamen persicum, Chinese primrose, Primula sinensis, Cape leadwort, Plumbago capensis, crimson grevillea, Grevillea punicea

Bouvardia, burchellia and jasmine species
Three-leaved bouvardia, Bouvardia triphylla, trumpet-flowered bouvardia, Bouvardia versicolor, Cape burchellia, Burchellia capensis, and dwarf Cape jasmine, Gardenia radicans

Anemone species: Japanese anemone, Anemone japonica, Cape anemone, Anemone capensis, and yellow anemone, Anemone palmata. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane

Chamaecrista capensis (Cassia capensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, London, 1821

Bell gardenia, Rothmannia capensis (Gardenia rothmannii). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Cape hare and tapeti or Brazilian hare
Cape hare, Lepus capensis, and tapeti or Brazilian hare, Sylvilagus brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

South Island piopio, Turnagra capensis. Extinct
New Zealand South Island piopio, Turnagra capensis. Extinct. (Thick-billed thrush, Turdus crassirostris.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Greater painted-snipe, Rostratula benghalensis (Cape snipe, Scolopax capensis). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Common tailorbird, stinging nettle and aardvark
Common tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius with nest, stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, and aardvark, Orycteropus afer. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Cape hare and manna ash
Cape hare, Lepus capensis 2, and manna ash, Fraxinus ornus 1. Manne, Mannet ou Helamys. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d

Cape figwort or cape fuchsia, Phygelius capensis. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Chinese lantern, Nymania capensis (Cape aitonia, Aitonia capensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Cape snowdrop, Crassula capensis. (Round-leaved septas, Septas capensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Exotic cicadas and wasps
Speckled black cicada, Gaeana maculata 1, Platypleura capensis 2, Lystra lanata 3, Andrena thoracica 4, Acrotelsa collaris 5, hoverfly, Milesia virginiensis 6, and paper wasp, polistes annularis 7

Rock hyrax, Procavia capensis (Syrian hyrax, Hyrax syriacus). Illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in Frankfurt Museum, engraved by James Basire

Aardvark, Orycteropus afer (Cape ant-eater, Orycteropus capensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by M. Griffith from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker

Collared puffbird, Bucco capensis (Collared barbet, Bucco collaris). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by Samuel Howitt from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier

Serval and jaguarundi
Serval, Leptailurus serval (Cape cat of Forster, Felis capensis) and jaguarundi, Puma yagouaroundi (yagouaroundi of d Azara), also called eyra cat

Sunda clouded leopard (vulnerable) and serval
Sunda clouded leopard, Neofelis diardi (vulnerable) and serval, Leptailurus serval (Tiger cat of Java, Felis diardi, and Cape cat of Forster, Felis capensis)

Hermaphrodite flower with seven pistilla, Heptagynia, Septas capensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis Lectures

Cape mole-rat, Georychus capensis (Long toothed marmot, Mus capensis) of South Africa. From the collection of Mr. Lee. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of

African rail, Rallus caerulescens and clymene moth
African rail, Rallus caerulescens (Rallus capensis) and clymene moth, Haploa clymene. After an illustration by Pieter de Bevere supplied by Governor Joan Gideon Loten

Cape pavetta, Pavetta capensis
Pavetta capensis (South African pavetta, Pavetta caffra). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Sara Maund from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Curtis British Entomology Plate 747
Lepidoptera: Macroglossa stellatarum = Macroglossum stellatarum (Humming-bird Hawk) [Plant: Impatiens capensis (Impatiens fulva, Orange Balsam)] Date: 1824-39

Emberiza capensis, Cape bunting
Ff. 154a. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Fringilla bicincta and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Giant Hyrax, Riesenklippdachs, extinct ancestor of the Rock or Cape Hyrax (Procavia capensis).. Colour printed (chromolithograph)

Hares and hooded rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Lepus capensis, Lepus timidus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

African coast rat or Cape mole rat, Georychus capensis.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Cape parakeet, Psittacus capensis.. Handcolored steel engraving by Joseph Kidd from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Browns Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Edinburgh, 1833

Cape mole rat, Georychus capensis, and Podolsk mole rat, Spalax zemni.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

Indian rhino, Rhinoceros unicornis (vulnerable), and rock hyrax, Procavia capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris

Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, and red-breasted
Scrubfowl (orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt?) and Cape francolin, Pternistis capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural

Cape springhare, Pedetes capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G

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