Sauropsid Collection (page 18)

Alligator mississippiensis, alligator
Hand coloured lithograph from final volume of Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle complcte des Reptiles (1854) by A.M.C. Dumeril, G. Bibron, and A. Dumeril

Boulengerula taitanus, taita caecilian tooth
Tooth of the young specialized for peeling mothers skin

Hyperodapedon
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Turtle skull bivalve
PDT unreg. Steinkern or internal cast of an unidentified bivalve, Cretaceous, North Carolina, U.S.A

Parakeet undulated
Parrakeet undulated, article taken from George Shaws The Naturalists Miscellany vol. 16, 1751-1813

Black bass
Illustration by Sir William Coles Paget Medlycott (1831-1887)

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

John Goulds hummingbird cases
As Curator and Preserver to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, in 1851 John Gould compiled an exhibition of stuffed hummingbirds which were displayed in 24 custom-made cases

Anser anser, greylag goose
Feathers from the greylag goose (Anser anser)

Various Pyroderus scutatus subspecies in storage at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Calidris cantus, red knot
Plate 190 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Four species of Galapagos finch
With different beaks. From Charles Darwins Journal of Researches

Saxicola rubetra, whinchat
Plate 170 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Turdus philomelos, song thrush egg
The egg of a song thrush (Turdus philomelos)

The Ostrich nest, East of Bembesi River
October 1870. Sketch 55 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

South American frogs and toads
Including Phryniscus nigricans, found by Charles Darwin. From Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle Vol 1-3

Pachyornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moa
Skeleton of a heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) specimen found in New Zealand during the Holocene period (10, 000 to present). See also T25118

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

Dinosaur coprolites
Fossilised faecal droppings of a dinosaur (probably Titanosaurus) with plant debris on the surface. From the Upper Cretaceous of India

Pachyornis elephantophus, moa bird
The giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand

Melopsittacus undulatus, budgerigar
Budgerigar specimen (Melopsittacus undulatus), photographed under UV light. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Struthio camelus, ostrich
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Bird Collections housed at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

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)

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