Endangered Collection (page 10)

Australian grass trees
Australian Grass Trees. Xanthorrhoea glauca, Xanthorrhoea presii and Xanthorrhoea johnsonii are the three species of this interesting and endangered tree, found only in Australia

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & rhinoceros
Plate 221 from Capter 11 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

Petaurus australis, yellow-bellied glider
Hepoona Roo. Drawing 47 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Mandrillus leucophaeus, drill
Plate 139 (58) Le Drill Vieux. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Dasyurus viverrinus, eastern native cat or quoll
Native names Mer-re-a-gan and Din-e-gow-a. Detail from drawing 84, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c

Barbastella barbastellus, western barbastelle

Ailurus fulgens, red panda
Plate 96 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Turnix sylvaticus, Common buttonquail
Plate 16 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Psittirostra psittacea, o u
Ff. 79, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale and Balaenoptera physalus
Plate 43 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Gallicolumba erythroptera, Polynesian ground dove
Ff. 136. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Columba leucophrys and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Ara ambiguus, great green macaw
Plate 6 painting by Louis Bourquet from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, Vol. 1, (1801). Annotated Le Grand Ara Militaire

Elaphodus cephalophus, tufted deer
Plate 65 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Chelonia mydas, green sea turtle
Zoological drawing 44 (1:40). Pencil sketch by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) from Sir Joseph Banks commission of natural history drawings on Captain James Cooks first voyage of the Pacific, 1768-1771

Canis lupus hodophilax, Japanese wolf
Photograph of the skin of a male Japanese wolf presented to the Natural History Museum by the Duke of Bedford, 1905, together with a skull specimen. See image references 11280, 11281 & 11282

Equus hemionus, Asian wild ass
Tibetan Wild Ass, Equus hemionus. Fig. 151 on page 55 of The Natural History of Animals (class Mammalia) in Word and Picture, Vol. 2 by Carl Christoph Vogt & Friedrich Specht, 1899

Dasyurus maculatus, spotted quoll

Panthera pardus nimr, Arabian leopard
Arabin leopards, arabia felici, Panthera pardus nimr. Plate 17 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Children with Explorer Packs
Children viewing a stuffed specimen of a cheetah on display in the Mammals Gallery within the Life Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Colobus polykomos, king colobus
Mounted skeleton of a king colobus monkey

Pteropus livingstonii, Comoro black flying fox
Photograph showing view from above and left side of two Comoro black flying fox, or Livingstones flying fox, skull specimens

Arvicola terrestris, European water vole
Plate 206 from the Collection of Watercolour Drawings of British Vertebrates, 1830-1841, by William MacGillivray (1796-1851)

Gallery 1, The Natural History Museum at Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Sarcophilus laniarius, Tasmanian devil
Jaw of a Tasmanian devil from the collections at the Natural History Museum

Teloschistes chrysopthalmus, lichen
Lichen shown in its herbarium packet from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Some lichens look virtually the same as dried specimens as in the field

Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass
African elephant viscera, approximately 3-4 days after death, showing abundance of blowfly larvae feeding on the dead tissues. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambezi Valley, Zambia

Extinct and / or endangered Hawaiian species
This is probably a reference for Julian Humes painting 35886

Photographed for the Royal Mails Rare and Engangered specie
To be added

Ceratotherium simum, white rhinoceros
White rhinoceros. Sketch 121 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Oryx dammah, scimitar-horned oryx
A small herd of scimitar-horned oryx grazing on a grass field in captivity. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Rhinocerotidae, rhinoceros
Mounted specimen of a rhinoceros on display in the Mammals Gallery within the Life Gallleries at the Natural Hisotry Museum, London

Large mammal exhibition at The Natural History Museum at Tri
Former exhibition at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Photographed by Colin Keates

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, Africa
Asian elephant above noted as E. Indicus, African elephant below noted as E. Africanus. Plate 39, engraving from Edinburgh Journal Natural History Vol. 1, 1835-39

Numenius borealis, Eskimo curlew
Plate 208 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

Lophophorus impejanus, Himalayan monal
Plate 53 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Partula affinis, P. otaheitana, French Polynesian tree snail
Plate 29 from Studies on the Genus Partula by Henry Edward Crampton (1916). Found only in French Polynesia this entire genus is on the brink of extinction due to predation from the introduced rosy

Perameles bougainville, barred bandicoot
Plate 2 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Empidonax traillii, willow flycatcher
Plate 45 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

Taurotragus oryx, eland

Prosopeia tabuensis, red shining parrot
Ff. 42. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Tonga Taboo and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Corypha taliera, tara palm
Illustration from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Panthera tigris corbetti, Indochinese tiger
Tiger skin from Laobao, Vietnam. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Potorous tridactylus gilbertii, Gilberts potoroo
Marsupial. Drawing 89 by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

Oncifelis colocolo, pampas cat
Felis pajeros. Plate 9 from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol 1, Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

Testudo marina, loggerhead turtle
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Chalinolobus tuberculatus, long-tailed wattled bat
Ff.1. Vespertilio tuberculatus, New Zealand Bat. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

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