Passerine Collection (page 6)

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)

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

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

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

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

Troglodytes aedon, house wren

Spizella arborea, American tree sparrow
Plate 188 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

Parus hudsonicus, boreal chickadee
Plate 194 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 fusca, Blackburnian warbler
Plate 135 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

Molothrus ater, brown-headed cowbird
Plate 99 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 solitarius, blue-headed vireo
Plate 28 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

Empidonax traillii, willow flycatcher
Plate 45 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

Ammodramus caudacutus, saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow
Plate 149 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

Cochoa viridis, green cochoa
Plate 1 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 2, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Vermivora peregrina, Tennessee warbler
Plate 154 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

Mniotilta varia, black and white warbler
Plate 90 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

Carduelis pinus, pine siskin
Plate 180 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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