Feather Collection (page 22)

Bubo bubo, Eurasian eagle-owl
Plate 38 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Dryocopus martius, black woodpecker
Plate 25 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Lophura nycthemera, silver pheasant
Large Series plate 51, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Gallicolumba luzonica, Luzon bleeding-heart and another unid
Large Series plate 53, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Archaeopteryx [Berlin specimen]
Cast of the Archaeopteryx fossil specimen held at the Berlin Natural History Museum. It shows clearly the spread-out wings and long clased fingers

Lymnocryptes minimus, jack snipe
Plate 80 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Dipus annulatus, gerbil
Plate 10 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)

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Large Series plate 39, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Bubo bubo bengalensis, Eurasian eagle-owl
Large Series plate 9, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Urocissa erythrorhyncha, red-billed blue magpie
Large Series plate 8, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Falco subbuteo, hobby, Terpsiphone sp. Paradise-flycatcher
Large Series plate 3, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

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

Chrysolophus pictus, golden pheasant
Large Series plate 47, 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)

Dendrocopos leucotos, white-backed woodpecker

Fringilla montifringilla, brambling
Plate 35 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Plate 344 from The Gleanings of Natural History by George Ed
Plate 344, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated White faced mannikin and ruby-crested hummingbird

Plate 240 from Reichenbachs Synopsis Avium

Megapodius decollatus, New Guinea megapode
Plate 36 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Trogon ardens, Philippine trogon
Hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould, from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trogonid, or Family of Trogons, Plate 35 (1838)

Ketupa flavipes, tawny fish owl
Plate 30, a watercolour by Rajman Singh, from Brian Houghton Hodgsons collection of birds and mammals of Nepal

Polyboroides typus, African harrier-hawk
An African harrier-hawk (Polyboroides typus) walking along a branch

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

Ptiloris magnificus, magnificent riflebird

Junglefowl
A watercolour from Giovanni da Udines Raccolta di Uccelli (c. 1850)

Cathartes aura, turkey-vulture
Feathers from a turkey-vulture (Cathartes aura). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Anser anser, greylag goose
Feathers from the greylag goose (Anser anser)

Various Pyroderus scutatus subspecies in storage at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Merops apiaster, European bee-eater
Plate 144 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Paroaria coronata, red-crested cardinal
Plate 157 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Parotia lawesii, Lawes parotia
Plate from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Asio flammeus galapagoensis, short-eared owl
Plate, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41)

A group of fragments of fossil crinoids
Watercolour of a group of fragments of fossil crinoids (feather-stars or sea-lilies) by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Argusianus argus, great argus
Detail of a feather from a great argus (Argusianus argus) from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Northiella haematogaster, bluebonnet
Specimen of a bluebonnet (Northiella haematogaster). It inhabits inland regions of south-east Australia

Sitta europaea, Eurasian nuthatch
An Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) about to land

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