Minimus Collection

Varieties of bats
Western naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia peronii 1, long-tongued nectar bat, Macroglossus minimus 2, northern ghost bat, Diclidurus albus 3, and Geoffroys rousette, Rousettus amplexicaudatus 4

Sparrows, towhee and waterthrush
White-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis 1, eastern towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus 2, white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys 3, and northern waterthrush, Parkesia noveboracensis 4

Aardvark and giant armadillo
Aardvark, Orycteropus afer 1, and giant armadillo, Priodontes maximus 2. Oritteropo del Capo di Buona Speranza, Priodonte gigante

Crocus minimus (Corsican crocus, Crocus minimus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after W. Herbert from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G

Rufous tailed hummingbird, tufted coquette
Rufous tailed hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl, Tufted coquette, Lophornis ornatus, and black-eared fairy, Heliothryx auritus Oiseau-mouche ventre gris, huppe col, oreilles d azur

Mousetail, Myosurus minimus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Yapok or water opossum, Chironectes minimus (yapock or palmated opossum, Chironectes palmata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Landseer after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith

Chinese dwarf sparrows and vervain hummingbird
Chinese dwarf sparrows 1, 2, 3 and vervain hummingbird, Mellisuga minima 4, on a tea bush, Camellia sinensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Curtis British Entomology Plate 437
Diptera: Phora abdominalis = Diploneura florescens (Red-bodied Phora) [Plant: Myosurus minimus (Little Mouse-tail)] Date: 1824-39

Spot-breasted woodpecker or least woodpecker, Colaptes punctigula.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Eastern quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus, and water opossum, Chironectes minimus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France

Jack snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Least purple crocus, Crocus minimus.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, 1830

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