Passeriformes Collection (page 6)

Ptiloris paradiseus, paradise riflebird
Plate 100, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Sylvia communis, greater whitethroat
Plate 174 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Cuculus canorus, common cuckoo, Anthus pratensis, meadow pip

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

Riparia riparia, sand martin
Plate 128 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Turdus merula, Eurasian blackbird
Plate 185 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Oenanthe oenanthe, northern wheatear
Plate 187 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Le Merle palmiste, blackbird in cabbage tree
Plate 70 from Vieillots Histoire naturelle de oiseaux d Amerique Central Volume 12. The Natural History of Birds from Central America

Scientists at play, 1899
An attendant in the Botany Library, Robert Hugh Bunting captured his colleagues at play in this humorous private photograph of Museum life taken in 1899

Finch
An illustration from the Zoology of the Beagle

Anthus sp. pipit
Plate 132 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, satin bowerbird
Plate 11, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Fringilla coelebs, chaffinch
Plate 148 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Thraupis bonariensis darwinii, blue-and-yellow tanager
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

Oriolus xanthornus, black-hooded Oriole
Plate 165 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Motacilla alba yarrelli, pied wagtail
Plate 130 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Sitta europaea, Eurasian nuthatch
An Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) about to land

Certhia familiaris, Eurasian treecreeper
Plate 145 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Corvus monedula, Eurasian jackdaw
Plate 163 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Pitangus sulphuratus, great kiskadee
A male specimen of the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Sylvia Carbanta, carbonated warbler
Plate 60 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

Vireo gilvus, warbling vireo
Plate 118 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

Dendroica striata, blackpoll warbler
Plate 133 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

Wilsonia pusilla, Wilsons warbler
Plate 124 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

Cistothorus palustris, marsh wren
Plate 98 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

Sericulus aureus, flame bowerbird
Plate 48 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 1 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Diphyllodes magnificus / Cicinnurus regius, hybrid magnificen
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol.1 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Geothlypis trichas, common yellowthroat
Plate 24 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

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, cliff swallow
Plate 68 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

Pipilo erythropthalmus, eastern towhee
Plate 29 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

Amandava amandava, red avadavat
Watercolour by Frederick Ditmas (c. 1840)

Vireo griseus, white-eyed vireo
Plate 63 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

Anthus spinoletta, water pipit
Plate 10 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh

Dendroica caerulescens, black-throated blue warbler
Plate 155 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

Vireo flavifrons, yellow-throated vireo
Plate 119 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

Prosthemadera noveseelandiae, tui
Ff. 61. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Certhia cincinnata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Tichodroma muraria, wallcreeper
A watercolour by Lady Mary Bentinck (c. 1833)

Passerella iliaca, fox sparrow
Plate 108 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

Pitta gurneyi, Gurneys pitta
Plate 5 from John Goulds A Monograph of the Pittidae (1880). Hand coloured lithograph

Zonotrichia leucophrys, white crowned sparrow
Plate 114 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

Hunted Down
Plate 11 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Protonotaria citrea, prothonotary warbler
Plate 3 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh

Vermivora ruficapilla, Nashville warbler
Plate 89 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

Hylocichla mustelina, wood thrush
Plate 73 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

Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting
Plate 189 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

Melanochlora sultanea, sultan tit
Plate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 2, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Passerina caerulea, blue grosbeak
Plate 122 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

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