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The Water Crawl Widgeon by Heath RobinsonThe " Water Crawl" Widgeon - bluffing device on the Norfolk jungle. Another mind-boggling idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson
Poland fowls and speckled Hamburg hensCocks and chickens: Poland fowls and speckled Hamburgs
Leadenhall Market on Christmas Eve, 1845Interior of Leadenhall Market, in London, on Christmas Eve of 1845. Shoppers are shown perusing a large selection of game and wild-fowl. Date: 1845
Nassau, Bahamas - Woman takes fowls to Market, A brace of Tureys in a box on her head and a couple of chickens in her arms. Certainly not a paltry load! Date: circa 1910s
Market Reports illustrated - Game - Supply Strong. A Fair clearance was effected! A Butcher scares away his customers (a rather well-heeled family)
Japan - Remarkable Fowl at MiyanoshitaJapan - Remarkable Onagadori at Miyanoshita with incredibly long tail feathers - nothing poultry about this display! Onagadori means " long-tailed fowl" in Japanese
Maiasaura hatchlingAn animated model of the dinosaur Miasaura, created by Kokoro Ltd. for the Natural History Museum, London. This dinosaur whose name meand good mother lizard lived during the Upper Cretaceous 60-85 mya
Malacorhynchus membranaceus, pink-eared duckWatercolour 92 by Thomas Wattling from the Watling Collection titled the Mandibles of a very curious creature
Peacocks, Turkeys and a DodoIllustration of Peacocks, Turkeys and a Dodo by Francis Willughby (1635-1672)
Polyplectron bicalcaratum, grey peacock-pheasant
Lophura nycthemera, silver pheasantLarge Series plate 51, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Gallicolumba luzonica, Luzon bleeding-heart and another unidLarge Series plate 53, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Anas clypeata, northern shoveller
Tadorna tadorna, common shelduckPlate 11 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Alectoris rufa, red-legged partridgePlate 14 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Arboricola javanica, Javan partridgePlate 86, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Anser fabalis, bean goosePlate 2 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Sarkidiornis melanotus, comb duckPlate 95, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Cygnus cygnus, whooper swanPlate 9 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Tragopan temminckii, Temmincks tragopanLarge Series plate 56, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. The plant is Gentiana sp
Gallus gallus, red junglefowlLarge Series plate 39, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Francolinus capensis, Cape francolin
Aythya ferina, common pochardPlate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Barkham Avenue, Piltdown, SussexView looking down the drive c. 1912, including from left to right, Venus Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward (with the goose Chipper), Charles Dawson, and Robert Kenward Snr
Anas querquedula, garganeyPlate 17 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Aythya fuligula, tufted duckPlate 23 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Anas penelope, Eurasian widgeonPlate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Aythya nyroca, ferruginous duckPlate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Tadorna ferruginea, ruddy shelduckPlate 12 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Inachis io, peacock butterfly caterpillarPicture 1, series A, in a sequence of 6 pictures showing the emergence of a peacock butterfly, beginning its active life as a caterpillar
Nettapus coromandelianus, cotton teal
Netta rufina, red-crested pochardPlate 22 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Inachis io, peacock butterfly, emerging from its pupaPicture 3, series A, in a sequence of 6 pictures showing the emergence of a peacock butterfly, from its pupa or chyrsalis form
Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Pallass sandgrousePlate 11 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Chrysolophus pictus, golden pheasantLarge Series plate 47, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Anas poecilorhyncha, spot-billed duckPlate 96, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Coturnix coturnix, common quailPlate 15 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Galloperdix bicalcarata, Ceylon spurfowlPlate 87, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Aythya marila, greater scaupPlate 24 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Dendrocygna javanica, lesser whistling duckPlate 98, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Diatryma steini skullSpecimen of a Diatryma steini skull found in South Elk Creek, Bighorn basin, Wyoming, USA. Lower Eocene, 55-50 million years old
Megapodius decollatus, New Guinea megapodePlate 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
Inachis io, peacock (above) & Vanessa atalanta, red admiralPlate 13 from Larvae and Pupae of British Lepidoptera (1878) by Theo Johnson
Anas crecca, common tealPlate 34 from Sir William Jardines The Naturalists Library. Original Drawings. Birds
Golden pheasant designDrawing 30 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s
Calotropis procera, rubber bushOne of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London