Sauropsid Collection (page 6)

Variegated Laughingthrush
Number 26 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Grey-winged Blackbird (Female) Turdus boilboul
Number 25 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Sri Lanka Thrush, Zoothera dauma imbricata
Number 24 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

White-throated Laughingthrush
Number 21 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorus
Number 23 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Striated Laughingthrush, Garrulax striatus
Number 22 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Lesser Yellownape, Picus chlorolophus
Number 19 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Himalyan Woodpecker, Dendrocopos himalayensis
Number 20 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Grey-headed Woodpecker, Picus canus
Number 18 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Nightjar sp. Caprimulgua sp
Number 16 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Blue-throated Barbet, Megalaima asiatica
Number 17 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Black-headed Jay, Garrulus lanceolatus
Number 14 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Young Cuckoo sp. Cuculidae Family
Number 15 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artisit unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Cream-coloured courser (juvenile)
Watercolour painting of the Courvite by Ann Latham (1772- after 1837). Held in the Library and Archives

Anas specularis, Bronze-winged duck
Watercolour, c.1928-1937? by Miss A. Ellen Prout (fl.1920s). Held in the Library and Archives

Indian Roller, Coracias benghalensis
Number 12 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Various birds eggs
From a bound volume of drawings of Neilgherry birds [and] Miscellaneous. Watercolour on card, 1858 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928 ). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1858

Speckled wood pigeon, Columba hodgsonii
Number 10 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Oriental Turtle Dove, Streptopelia orientalis
Number 9 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Yellow-footed green pigeon
Number 7 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Wedge-tailed green pigeon, Treron sphenurus
Number 8 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Pied Kingfisher, Ceryle rudis
Number 5 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Crested kingfisher, Megaceryle lugubris
Number 4 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

White-throated kingfisher, Halcyon smymensis
Number 6 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Grey-winged blackbird, Turdus boulboul
Number 3 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Blue whistling thrush, Myoponus caeruleus
Number 2 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives ref: Z88 f BEN Date: 1833

Numida meleagris, Helmeted Guineafowl, female
Skin of guineafowl collected by 19th Century naturalist Emin Pasha in Tingasi, Equatorial Africa. 17/8/1883. Original NHM label: Numida ptilorhyncha 1887.9.28.28. Date: 1887

Musophaga rossae, Rosss turaco, female
Skin of turaco collected by 19th Century naturalist Emin Pasha in Tingasi, Equatorial Africa. 10/08/1883. Original NHM label: Musophaga rossae 1887.9.28.45 Date: 1887

Motacilla flava, Western Yellow Wagtail, male
Skin of Western Yellow Wagtail collected by 19th Century naturalist Emin Pasha in Tingasi, Equatorial Africa. 02/10/1883. Original NHM label: Budytes flava 1887.9.28.156 Date: 1887

Notes relating to Asian Paradise Flycatcher
Original watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c

Male Kestrel Watercolour Plate 1. Aug 1848
Original watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c

First page of notes relating to Kestrel
Original watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c

Rhea by Gambier Bolton
Rhea photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring

Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
1904 Colonsay specimen of Coccyzus americanus, held at the Natural History Museum at Tring Date: 1904

Black swan, Latham Collection vol. 6, f. 971
Black swan, Latham Collection vol.6, f.971

Anas jubata, Latham Collection Vol. 6, f. 1001
Anas jubata, Latham Collection Vol.6, f.1001

Merops ornatus, Latham collection Vol. 3, f368

Cuculous plagosus, Latham Collection, Vol. 2
Cuculous plagosus, Latham Collection, Vol.2, f.280

Certhia tenuistris, Latham Collection vol. 3
Certhia tenuistris, Slender billed creeper Latham Collection vol.3, f.405

Dr Leachs 139 great auk egg
Dr Leachs 139 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

The Birds of America by John James Audubon
The Birds of America, the 19th-century masterpiece by John James Audubon, is the worlds most valuable book and it is extremely rare

Moa bone fragment
First piece of moa bone, found between 1831 and 1836. The 15cm fragment comes from the species Dinornis novaezealandiae and is 0.01-1.8 million years old

Iguanodon tooth
Original Iguanodon tooth found by Dr. and Mrs. Mantell. Iguanodon was a large plant eater with cheek teeth for grinding vegetation and hoof-like claws

Pelecanus onocrotalus, Great white pelican
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies, 1918 Date: 1918

Tockus erythrorhynchus, Red-billed hornbill
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies

Charles Darwins pigeons
The original label on a pigeon specimen given to the Museum by Charles Darwin

Dodo skeleton, Raphus cucullatus
The dodo is an icon of extinction, one of the first widely acknowledged cases of a species being wiped out by humans. There are so few complete dodo skeletons that we may never know exactly what they

Emperor penguin egg collected in 1911, on Scotts last expedition to Antarctica. The hole shows where the embryo was removed for study

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