Fowl Collection (page 4)

Barkham Avenue, Piltdown, Sussex
View 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, garganey
Plate 17 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Aythya fuligula, tufted duck
Plate 23 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Anas penelope, Eurasian widgeon
Plate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Aythya nyroca, ferruginous duck
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Tadorna ferruginea, ruddy shelduck
Plate 12 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Inachis io, peacock butterfly caterpillar
Picture 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 pochard
Plate 22 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Inachis io, peacock butterfly, emerging from its pupa
Picture 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 sandgrouse
Plate 11 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Chrysolophus pictus, golden pheasant
Large Series plate 47, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Anas poecilorhyncha, spot-billed duck
Plate 96, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Coturnix coturnix, common quail
Plate 15 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Galloperdix bicalcarata, Ceylon spurfowl
Plate 87, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Aythya marila, greater scaup
Plate 24 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Dendrocygna javanica, lesser whistling duck
Plate 98, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Diatryma steini skull
Specimen 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 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

Inachis io, peacock (above) & Vanessa atalanta, red admiral
Plate 13 from Larvae and Pupae of British Lepidoptera (1878) by Theo Johnson

Anas crecca, common teal
Plate 34 from Sir William Jardines The Naturalists Library. Original Drawings. Birds

Golden pheasant design
Drawing 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 bush
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London

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

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

Lagopus mutus, rock ptarmigan
Plate 196 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Aglais urticae and Inachis io
Small tortoiseshell and peacock butterflies. Pressed insects prepared by Leonard Plukenet, housed at the Natural History Museum, London

Maiasaura with young
An 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

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

Eggs from Aepyornis maximus and Gallus domesticus
Scale comparison using eggs from a chicken (Gallus domesticus), and the largest known extinct bird, the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)

Meleagris ocellata, ocellated turkey
A specimen of an ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocallata) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Somateria mollissima, common eider
Plate 246 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

Anthya marila, greater scaup
Plate 229 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

Geotrygon chrysia, Key West quail dove
Plate 167 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Oreortyx pictus, mountain quail
Plate 15 from John Goulds A Monograph of the Odontophorin, or Partirdges of America (1850). Hand coloured lithograph

Anser albifrons, greater white-fronted goose
Plate 286 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

Lophura leucomelana, kalij pheasant
A watercolour by Lady Mary Bentinck (c. 1833)

Dendrocygna viduata, white-faced whistling duck
Ff. 76. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas viduata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Tadorna cana, South African shelduck
Ff. 70. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas montana and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Anas superciliosa, Pacific black duck

Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse
Plate 41 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

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

Aythya novaeseelandiae, New Zealand scaup
Ff. 79. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Anas atricilla and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Arborophila torqueola, common hill partridge
A watercolour by Lady Mary Bentinck (c. 1833)

Ithaginis cruentus, blood pheasant
Plate 43 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Moths of the family Saturniidae
Mounted specimens of the Emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia Linnaeus) and the great peacock (Saturnia pyri) moths. Moths are nocturnal insects

Somateria spectabilis, king eider
Plate 276 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

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