Hook Collection (page 6)

A rather tall tale of the largest fish ever caught
" My Father e once caught a fishas big -as our street!" " Well, then, it must ave bin a Whale." " Garn, e were baitin wi Whales!" Date: 1901

The first Blackburn B-24 Skua II L2883
The first Blackburn B-24 Skua II, L2883, to have an arrester hook fitted

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Hawker Audax I K2012 with extended message pick-up hook
Hawker Audax I, K2012, with extended message pick-up hook

Vought F8U-1 Crusader comes in for a landing
Its arrester hook down, a Vought F8U-1 Crusader comes in for a landing during instrumented tests of new arresting gear installed on Hensley Field, Dallas

A McDonnell XP-85 Goblin approaching modified B-29B-65-BA for hook-up to a trapeze lowered from the rear bomb-bay

An early Hawker Sea Fury X TF901
An early Hawker Sea Fury X, TF901, with a four-blade propeller and short hook

Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle
A specimen of a harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

bird
A specimen collected by Dr A. Habel, labelled Camarhynchus variegatus

Aquila audax, wedge-tailed eagle
Watercolour 95 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Bold Vulture, Boo-ro-ma-rang

Cacatua sulphurea, yellow-crested cockatoo
Plate from William Hayes Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, With Their Descriptions, From the Menagery of Osterley Park, London, (1794)

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

Pernis apivorus, European honey buzzard
Plate 11 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Probosciger aterrimus, palm cockatoo
Plate 42, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Psittacula sp. parakeet
Plate 47, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China. The plant is Solanum sp

Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, hyacinth maccaw
Plate 9 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph

Eos rubra, red lory
Plate 14, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Purpureicephalus spurius, red-capped parrot
Plate 21 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph

Enicognathus leptorhynchus, slender-billed parakeet
Plate 11 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph

Ara araurana, blue and yellow maccaw
Plate 8 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph

Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus, scaly-breasted lorikeet

Camarhynchus crassirostris, vegetarian finch
Plate 41, 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). Finch from the Galapagos Islands

Elanoides forficatus, swallow-tailed kite
Plate 4, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Ara macao, scarlet maccaw
Plate from William Hayes Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, With Their Descriptions, From the Menagery of Osterley Park, London, (1794)

Ramphostos toco, toco toucan
Plate 6, hand coloured lithograph by Edward Lear (1833) from John Goulds A Monograph of the Ramphastid, or family of Toucans (1834)

Pezoporus occidentalis, night parrot
Plate 66 from John Goulds The Birds of Australia (1840-48). Supplementary volume. Hand coloured lithograph

Ara tricolor, Hispaniolan macaw
Plate 10, painting by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) published in Lord Lionel Walter Rothschilds Extinct birds, (1907)

Buteo buteo, common buzzard
A common buzzard (Buteo buteo), taken by an unknown photographer

Psittacula krameri, rose-ringed parakeet
Plate 56 from Parrots in Captivity 1 (1884-87) by William Thomas Greene

Harpagophytum procumbens, grapple plant
African grapple plant seed. For seed dispersal, the seeds have grappling hooks which hook onto animals and get transported elsewhere untill they eventually fall off

Velcro
A trademarked name for a fastening tape made up of a strip of nylon with a surface of minute hooks, that fasten to another strip with a surface of uncut pile. A SEM image

Loxia curvirostra, red crossbill
Plate 152 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Polyboroides radiatus, Madagascan harrier-hawk

Apteryx australis, brown Kiwi, Haliaeetus leucogaster, white
Skeletons of a brown kiwi (Apteryx australis) and a white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) from The Dorling Kindersley Nature Encyclopedia, (1998)

Phoenicopterus ruber ruber, greater flamingo
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Amirthalingamia macracantha, tapeworm

Lorius garrulus, chattering lory
Plate 72 from Christian Ludwig Brehms Monographie der Papageien (1855)

Aegypius monachus, cinereous vulture
Plate 13 from Nouveau recueil de planches coloriees d Oiseaux (1820) by Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Hapalopsittaca amazonina, rusty-faced parrot
Plate 51 from Christian Ludwig Brehms Monographie der Papageien (1855)

Amazona dufresniana, blue-cheeked parot
Plate 55 from Christian Ludwig Brehms Monographie der Papageien (1855)

Phorusrhacus longissmus

Loriculus vernalis, vernal hanging parrot
Plate 8, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Psittacula columboides, Malabar parakeet
Plate 23, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Dicrurus aeneus, bronzed drongo
Plate 44, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Lanius schach erythronotus, long-tailed shrike
Plate 46, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Cacatua galerita, sulphur-crested cockatoo
Drawing No. 61, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

Calyptorhynchus lathami, glossy black cockatoo
Drawing No. 60, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

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