Sauropsid Collection (page 4)

Lord Lilfords great auk egg
Lord Lilfords great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. Also known as the Royal College of Surgeons egg No.6 The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle

Bullocks great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century. 1962.1.5 (composite image) Date: 1962

Great auk, Pinguinus impennis
The great auk, Pinguinus impennis, is one of the most powerful symbols of the damage humans can cause. The species was driven extinct as a result of centuries of intense human exploitation

South Island Saddleback Tieke, Philesturnus carunculatus (young and adult). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.1 Plate 3 Date: 1888

Fernbird Matata New Zealand Pipit Pihoihoi
Fernbird Matata, Bowdleria punctata. New Zealand Pipit Pihoihoi, Anthus novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Silvereye Tauhou, Bellbird Korimako
Silvereye Tauhou, Zosterops lateralis lateralis. Bellbird Korimako, Anthornis melanura melanura (male and female). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New

New Zealand Falcon Karearea (adult & young)
New Zealand Falcon Karearea, Falco novaeseelandiae (adult an young). Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.2 Plate 23 Date: 1888

Pied Shag Karuhiruhi, Chatham Island Shag
Pied Shag Karuhiruhi, Phalacrocorax varius varius. Chatham Island Shag, Leucocarbo onslowi. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Wilsons frigate bird, Fregata wilsoni
Bird specimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition

Herald petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana arminjoniana
Specimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition

Lacertilia, lizards
Coloured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904

Immature Golden Eagle and Bald Eagle
Originally titled: Ring-tailed Eagle and Sea Eagle. Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 1824. Hand-coloured engraving. Date: 1824

Chordeiles minor, Common nighthawk
Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 1824. Hand-coloured engraving. Date: 1824

American Ornithology by Alexander Wilson, 1824
Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 1824. Hand-coloured engraving. Date: 1824

Wading bird illustration by Alexander Wilson
Little blue heron, Egretta caerulea; Snowy egret, Egretta thula; Virginia rail, Rallus limicola and Clapper rail, Rallus longirostris. Hand painted engraving

Triceratops horn
Triceratops which lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 67 to 65 million years ago had three horns. It grew up to 9 metres in length and fossils have been discovered in USA

Megalosaurus tooth
A typical carnosaur tooth belonging to Megalosaurus. It is curved in shape, pointing backwards and has sharp, serrated edges for cutting meat. The Megalosaurus lived during the Middle Jurassic period

Pieridae sp. sulphur butterflies
Original drawing for a plate in A field guide to the butterflies of the West Indies. Artwork by Brian Hargreaves. This picture must not be used without permission from Brian Hargreaves

Bird illustration
Tab 264 From Natural History of Jamaica (1725) by Sir Hans Sloane

Terra Nova birds report
Plate XIV from the Birds report by Low and Kinnear, taken from Volume IV of the British Anarctic (Terra Nova) Natural History Reports

Turdus merula, common blackbird
Photograph of a female common blackbird, taken in the museum wildlife garden

Phormictopus cancerides, Haitian brown tarantula
The Haitian brown tarantula (Phormictopus cancerides) is an aggressive bird-eating tarantula. Specimen derives from the Republic of Haiti in the Caribbean

Harpactes fasciatus, Malabar trogon
Plate 30, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Procellaria cinerea, grey petrel
Ff. 92. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated laria inexpectata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Smooth-necked iguana design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird of paradise
Image of a male and female blue bird of paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi. New Guinea. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

A collection of birds feathers
Contour feathers, wing coverts and tail coverts from several different species of birds

Bone knife from Papua New Guinea
Traditional bone knife of unknown age, from Sepik Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Made from tibiotarsus of Cassowary Casuarius sp

Threskiornis aethiopicus, sacred ibis skeleton
Plate 52 from a paper published by Georges Cuvier in 1804

Sturnus vulgaris, European starling
Plate 159 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Awful Changes
Frontispiece - Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Buckland. A cartoon by H.T de la Beche. You will at once perceive, continued Professor Ichthyosaurus

Pteranodon was a giant flying reptile which lived during the Cretaceous period around 85 to 75 million years ago

Ixobrychus exilis, least bittern
Plate 210 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

Tachycineta bicolor, tree swallow
Plate 100 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

Phalaropus tricolor, Wilsons phalarope
Plate 254 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

Tyto alba, barn owl
A mounted specimen of a barn owl (Tyto alba). Barn owls are well distributed in Europe, South America, U.S.A, Africa and Australia. There are 35 subspecies

Melanosuchus niger, black caiman crocodile

Green Tree Frog
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Snake illustration by Albertus Seba
Tab 81, a snake illustration from Thesaurus Vol 2, by Albertus Seba

Serinus canaria, island canary
Specimen of an island canary (Serinus canaria)

Emu egg
Fresh emu eggs are a dark turquoise colour, which fades over time if they are preserved

Rock Python skin
Dr Colin McCarthy examining a Rock Python skin in the Zoology department of The Natural History Museum, London

Chimera
An illustration of a mythical creature, part mammal, part reptile, the Chimera. On display for the Myth and Monsters Exhbition which ran from April to September, 1998 at the Natural History Museum

Ichthyosaurus communis

Anas discors, blue-winged teal
Plate 313 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Anastomus lamelligerus, African open-bill
Watercolour and pencil by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1918). This species is a member of the stork family and mainly hunts in marshes and wetlands

Giant tortoises at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

C. Harris feeding Galapagos tortoises, 1898
Sailor and explorer Charles Harris was despatched to the Galapagos islands to collect giant tortoises for Walter Rothschild in 1897

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