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Sri Lanka Thrush, Zoothera dauma imbricataNumber 24 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
White-throated LaughingthrushNumber 21 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorusNumber 23 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Striated Laughingthrush, Garrulax striatusNumber 22 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Black-headed Jay, Garrulus lanceolatusNumber 14 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Grey-winged blackbird, Turdus boulboulNumber 3 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Blue whistling thrush, Myoponus caeruleusNumber 2 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Motacilla flava, Western Yellow Wagtail, maleSkin of Western Yellow Wagtail collected by 19th Century naturalist Emin Pasha in Tingasi, Equatorial Africa. 02/10/1883. Original NHM label: Budytes flava 1887.9.28.156 Date: 1887
Notes relating to Asian Paradise FlycatcherOriginal watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c
North Island Kokako, Callaeas wilsoni. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.1 Plate 1 Date: 1888
Rifleman, Bush Wren & Rock WrenRifleman Tititipounamu, Acanthisitta chloris (female and male). Bush Wren Matuhituhi, Zenicus longipes. Rock Wren Piwauwau, Xenicus gilviventris
Long-tailed Cuckoo and Grey WarblerLong-tailed Cuckoo Koekoea, Eudynamys taitensis (adult and young). Grey Warbler Riroriro, Gregone igata. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand
Black Robin and Chatham Island WarblerBlack Robin, Petroica (Miro) traversi and Chatham Island Warbler, Gerygone albofrontata. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.4 Plate 59
Nucifraga caryocatactes, NutcrackerIllustration from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: circa 1850
Key for Eggs of ParadiseidaeKey to Plate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100055 for original plate
Darwin finch drawn for the cover of the 99% Ape publication
La fauvette a queue rousse, a red-tailed warblerSylvia russeicauda. Plate 70 from Vieillots Histoire naturelle de oiseaux d Amerique Central Volume 12. The Natural History of Birds from Central America
Tropaeolum peregrinum, Canary bird flowerIllustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Fregilupus varius specimen collected in Reunion
Fregilupus varius, reunion starlingThe reunion starling is an extinct bird native to the Mascarenes. It became extinct c. 1860
Eggs of ParadiseidaePlate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100056 for key
Mocking birdAn illustration (Plate 17, Birds) from the Zoology of the Beagle
Epimachus ellioti, elliots sicklebillPlate from a first edition of Birds of New Guinea by John Gould (1804 - 1881)
Botany staff, March 1900. The Natural History Museum, LondoRobert Hugh Bunting photographed his colleagues in a relaxed mood during March 1900
Bird-of-paradisePlate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)
birdA specimen collected by Dr A. Habel, labelled Camarhynchus variegatus
European GoldfinchIllustration of a European Goldfinch by John Keulemans (1842-1912)
Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstart nest and eggsPlate 54 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)
Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown larkPage 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark
Greater Bird of ParadiseIllustration of a Greater Bird of Paradise by Eleazar Albin
Pyrocephalus rubinus, vermilion flycatcherPlate 6, 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). This is not one of Darwins finches
Sturnus vulgaris, starling
Anthus novaeseelandiae, New Zealand pipitWatercolour 270 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New-Holland Lark
Pardalotus punctatus, spotted pardaloteWatercolour 287 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled New Holland Manakins
Flycatcher, elliottia, purple malve and pipitDrawin 19 from the Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788 by William Bartram. Original artwork held in the Natural History Museum, London
Certhidea olivacea, warbler-finchA specimen of a warbler-finch (Certhidea olivacea) collected in the Galapagos Islands during the Voyage of the Beagle
Specimen label for Geospiza difficilis, sharp-beaked groundSecond of three specimen labels for a finch collected by Dr A. Habel from Abingdon Island, Galapagos Islands in 1868
Geospiza fuliginosa, small ground finchA specimen of a small ground finch (Geospiza fuliginosa) collected by Robert FitzRoy in the Galapagos Islands during the Voyage of the Beagle
Leiothrix argentauris, silver-eared mesiaPlate 221, a watercolour by Rajman Singh, from Brian Houghton Hodgsons collection of birds and mammals of Nepal
Nesomimus parvulus, Galapagos mockingbirdA specimen of a Galapagos mockingbird (Nesomimus parvulus) collected by Charles Robert Darwin in the Galapagos Islands during the Voyage of the Beagle
Certhidea olivacea fusca, warbler-finchA specimen of a warbler-finch (Certhidea olivacea fusca) collected by Dr A. Habel in the Galapagos Islands
Camarhynchus prosthemelasA specimen collected by Dr A. Habel, labelled Camarhynchus prosthemelas
Pyrrhoxcorax pyrrhocorax, red-billed choughPlate 29 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Muscicapa striata, spotted flycatcherPlate 120 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Loxia curvirostra, red crossbill, Loxia scotica, Scottish crPlate 27 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Cinclus cinclus, white-throated dipperPlate 122 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Unidientified sunbird nestPlate 64, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
