Crake Collection

Baillons crake, Porzana pusilla, and great northern loon, Gavia immer. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d

Black crake, Zapornia flavirostra (Yellow-billed waterhen, Gallinula flavirostra). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Tree frog, water rail and landrail
European tree frog, Hyla arborea, water rail, Rallus aquaticus, and corn crake or landrail, Crex crex. Rainette verte, rale d eau, rale de genets

Spotted crake, Porzana porzana.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Porzana tabuensis, spotless crake
Ff. 130. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Rallus minutus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Porzana parva, little crake
Plate 90 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Corn crake, Crex crex.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Spotted crake, Porzana porzana.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Porzanula palmeri, Laysan Crake
The Laysan Crake or Laysan Rail was native to Hawaii, and became extinct about 1944. This specimen is from the Rothschild Bequest

Porzana pusilla, Baillons crake
Plate 89 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Amaurornis flavirostra, black crake
Ff. 132. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Rallus aethiops and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Porzana porzana, spotted crake
Plate 88 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris, mocking cliffchat
Plate 91, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

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