Sauropsid Collection (page 22)

Puffinus gravis, great shearwater
Plate 283 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Xema sabini, Sabines gull, Calidris alba, sanderling
Plate 285 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Accipiter novaehollandiae, variable goshawk
Ff. 35. Pencil drawing by George Forster annotated Falco lucuetos, New Holland white falcon and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Tortoise and armadillo comparison
A really strange picture, reminds me of 1960s New York art

Dendrocygna viduata, white-faced whistling duck
Ff. 76. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas viduata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Tadorna cana, South African shelduck
Ff. 70. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas montana and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Tringa nebularia, common greenshank

Mesosaurus tenuidens fossil
Anterior portion of skeleton of the extinct reptile, Mesosaurus tenuidens gervais from the Karoo Formation, Griqualand West, South Africa. Cast of the type specimen

Scolopax minor, American woodcock

Sagittarius serpentarius, secretary bird
Ff. 32. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Falco sagittarius, serpantarius and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

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

Anas superciliosa, Pacific black duck

Mounted tortoise specimen
Photograph of a mounted tortoise specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)

Larus delawarensis, ring-billed gull
Plate 212 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Numenius phaeopus, whimbrel
Plate 237 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), 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)

Phaethon lepturus, white-tailed tropicbird
Plate 262 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Larus glaucoides, Iceland gull
Plate 282 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Ectopistes migratorius, passenger pigeon
Plate 62 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

Numenius borealis, Eskimo curlew
Plate 208 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Professor Thomas Bell (1792-1880)
Portrait of Professor Thomas Bell, an English zoologist, surgeon and writer. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers, c. 1854

Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse
Plate 41 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

Wallaces birds
Bird specimens (possibly Megalaima) collected by Alfred Russel Wallace

Original manuscript by the 13th Earl of Derby
McGillivray. Port Essington 1845 May. John Gould Australian Collection. 2 sides: Mammals 1-8 (Pteropus to Macropus) and Birds 1- 40 (Porzana to Nycticorax)

Reptiles of Port Essington. An article written by Gilbert, John (1812-1845). Gould Australian Collection 8/3/2p. Page two of two

The Bird Gallery at The Natural History Museum, London. 1944
The Bird Gallery was located on the ground floor in the west wing. On 11 July 1944 a flying bomb landed in Cromwell Road and all the glass in the west wing, inside and out, was broken

Oedura marmorata, marbled velvet gecko. Lectotype, catalogue number BMNH XXII 2b

Lophognathus gilberti, gilberts dragon
Designated holotype of Lophognathus gilberti, gilbert?s dragon. Catalogue number BMNH 1946.8.28.69 (XXIII.44ce). M. Spirit specimen. rnPort Essington [collected 1838-1849]

Birds obserbed inhabiting the Coburg Peninsula, John Gilbert
Birds inhabiting the Coburg Peninsula. Article taken from the Gould Australian Collection 8/5/3. Written by Gilbert, John assistant to Gould, John (side 2 of 3 sides)

Falco cherrug, saker falcon
X-ray image of an Ancient Egyptian bird mummy, identified as a Saker Falcon. Catalogue reference - CRW-4119

Catching A Tartar
Plate 17 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Cleaners of the Sea
Plate 8 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

The Island Sanctuary
Plate 5 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Bird & Flower of Port Jackson

Agama by John Edward Gray
Note on a peculiar structure in the head of an Agama by John Edward Gray. Passage taken from Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray, 1831. Part two of two

Reptiles from New Zealand
Descriptions of two hitherto unrecorded species of Reptiles from New Zealand. Passage taken from The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray, 1831

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

Aythya novaeseelandiae, New Zealand scaup
Ff. 79. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Anas atricilla and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Mr William Walker
Holding a Baryonyx claw. Baryonyx was found in 1983 in a clay pit in Surrey, England, by the British amateur fossil hunter William Walker

Rissa tridactyla, black-legged kittiwake
Plate 224 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Alca torda, razorbill
Plate 214 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Sauropod skin impression
Dinosaurs belonging to the suborder of Sauropods (Sauropoda) like diplodocus had a relatively smooth skin covered in scales of different sizes

Euparkeria
A model of Euparkeria. This was an early archosauriform, a type of carnivorous and terrestrial reptile that lived around 225 million years ago during the Early Triassic period

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

Limosa haemastica, Hudsonian godwit
Plate 258 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Conuropsis carolinensis, Carolina parakeet
Plate 26 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

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