Sauropsida Collection (page 9)

Mycteria ibis, Yellow-billed stork
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies, 1918 Date: 1918

Phoenicopterus roseus, Greater Flamingo
Watercolour by Claude Finch-Davies

Maternal Courage
Plate 14 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

Chamaeleo zeylanicus, Indian chameleon
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; attributed to artist J. Hayes; 1819

Tragopan satyra; Satyr tragopan; male
Illustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: 1850

Lophura leucomelanos, Kalij pheasant
Illustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850 s. Originally titled The Kalidge Pheasant. Date: 1850

Psilopsiagon aymara, grey-hooded parakeet
Plate 32 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Long-billed black cockatoo
Plate 6 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Accipiter cirrocephalus, collared sparrowhawk
Watercolour 112 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New Holland Sparrowhawk

Falco longipennis, Australian hobby
Watercolour 105 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Lunated Falcon, Goo-roo-wang

Hypsilophodon skull
Hypsilophodons narrow mouth would have been suitable for picking out soft shoots and leaves. Narrow mouths allow animals to select food with more care. This specimen lived 125 million years ago

Plesiosaurus macrocephalus
Plate 15 from Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World, by Sir Richard Owen, (1854). This marine reptile could be found during the Jurassic period between 200 and 145 million years ago. Date: 1854

Daspletosaurus teeth
Fossil teeth from the Daspletosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur closely related to, but not as big as, the Tyrannosaurus

Hypsilophodon foot
Hypsilophodons upper foot bones were long and the lower foot thin and flexible, very like todays running birds. This specimen which was discovered in England dates back 125 million years to

Platycercus venustus, northern rosella
Plate 19 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Iguanodon femur
A fossil femur, or thigh bone that once belong to the bipedal herbivorous dinosaur, Iguanodon. This specimen shows marks where muscles were once attached to the bone

Magyarosaurus sp. & Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Magyarosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania, Romania. Cetiosaurus was an early sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin
This emperor penguin, one of the earliest to come to Britain, was one of the many specimens collected by James Clark Ross Antarctic expedition between 1839 and 1843

Ascension, Terns and Noddies
Illustration (p.538) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adair
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin egg
Collected on the British Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition (1910 - 1913) by Edward Wilson

Key for Eggs of Paradiseidae
Key to Plate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100055 for original plate

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Agyrtria niveipectus, hummingbird display
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 then displayed in 24 custom-made cases

Athene blewitti, forest owlet
Donated to the Museum in 1954 by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, it was discovered that he had in fact stolen the specimen from the Museum and changed its label

Group of Adeliee Penguins feeding their young
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle
A specimen of a harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Dicynodon leoniceps
Right side of skull with damaged tooth, eye and nasal aperture. From Gats River in the Sneewberg mountain range, South Africa and collected by W Guybon Atherstone

Cyanoramphus ulietanus, Raiatea parakeet

Cynognathus crateronotus
A fossil skull that belonged to the extinct mammal-like reptile, Cynognathus. It lived during the Triassic period, 245 to 208 million years ago. Typical length of entire creature 1.8 metres

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1987
Wildlife Photographer of the Year advertisement poster featuring the photograph Oyster Catcher by Mike Wilkes (Winner: Animal Potraits)

St Helena
Illustration (p.517) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Darwin finch drawn for the cover of the 99% Ape publication

Ichthyosaur
A plastic toy model of the extinct marine reptile, Ichthyosaur, created by Invicta Ltd. These reptiles lived during the Jurassic and Triassic periods, becoming extinct around 90 million years ago

La fauvette a queue rousse, a red-tailed warbler
Sylvia russeicauda. Plate 70 from Vieillots Histoire naturelle de oiseaux d Amerique Central Volume 12. The Natural History of Birds from Central America

Agyrtria viridiceps, hummingbird display
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

Ophisaurus sp. glass snake & Chrysanthemum americanum
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Glass Snake

Lizard embryo
Model of a lizard embryo

Berkeley Sound, Falkland islands
Illustration (p.214) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Watercolour fomr the Sir Ashton Lever Collection
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the Sir Ashton Lever Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. NHML (3) 42

Geochelone elephantopus, giant tortoise

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor Penguin egg
Egg specimens collected during the Terra Nova expedition to Antartica

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adare
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Agyrtria brevirostris, hummingbird display
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

Ichthyosaurus. Illustration taken from the Richard Owen coll
Illustration 117a, annotated by William Clift asNo 4. Profile of Mr Johnsons Fossil found at Lyme

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