Tail Collection (page 14)

Egretta tricolor, tricolored heron
Plate 217 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

Sitta carolinensis, white-breasted nuthatch
Plate 152 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

Loligo sp. squid
Specimen of a squid (Loligo sp.)

Chrysis rudii, ruby-tailed wasp
An illustration of a ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis rudii)

Lorius garrulus, chattering lory
Plate 72 from Christian Ludwig Brehms Monographie der Papageien (1855)

Clamator jacobinus, jacobin cuckoo
Plate 2, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Prinia inornata, plain prinia
Plate 17, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Turdoides striatus malabaricus, jungle babbler
Plate 34, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Motacilla maderaspatensis, white-browed wagtail
Plate 8, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Myophonus horsfieldii, Malabar whistling thrush
Plate 13, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Dicrurus aeneus, bronzed drongo
Plate 44, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Halcyon smyrnensis, white-throated kingfisher
Plate 53, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Podargus strigoides, tawny frogmouth
Watercolour 296 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Great-headed Goatsucker

Larus pacificus, pacific gull
Watercolour 343 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled Pacific Gull, Troo-gad-dill

Caesio lunaris, lunar fusilier
Plate 34 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Lanius schach, long-tailed shrike
Long-tailed shrike egg specimens

Trachurus trachurus, common scad
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Paradisaea minor, Lesser bird-of-paradise
Photograph of a lesser-bird-of-paradise specimen, held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Leonotis leonurus, Lions tail
A specimen of Lions tail (Leonotis leonurus) from George Cliffords herbarium

Beelat (aboriginal name)

Oenanthe chrysopygia, red-tailed wheatear
Red-tailed wheatear egg specimens

Monodelphis fosteri, shrewish short-tailed opossum, skin and skull. Specimen taken from the Natural History Museum mammals collection

Heros autochthon. Catalogue number 1961_7_7_6

Bhutanitis lidderdalii, Bhutan glory
A mounted specimen of a male Bhutan glory butterfly which is an endangered species found in South Asia

Teinopalpus aureus, golden Kaiser-I-Hind
Digital image of the underside of a mounted specimen of a male Asian kite swallowtail the Kaiser-I-Hind (Teinopalpus imperialis)

Thalassoma lunare, moon wrasse
Plate 107A from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57

Teinopalpus imperialis, Kaiser-I-Hind
Digital image of the upperside of a mounted specimen of a female Asian kite swallowtail the Kaiser-I-Hind (Teinopalpus imperialis)

Study of a ray
Page 450 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Clupea alosa, shad
Plate 57 by Edward Donovan from his British Fishes, Vol 1, 1802

Study of shark
Page 397 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Anatomical study of a ray
Page 451 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Cinclus mexicanus, American dipper
Plate 370 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

Euproctis chrysorrhoea, brown-tail moth caterpillar
These caterpillars of the brown-tail moth are noted for their poisonous hairs, which can cause a rash on contact with skin

Parabuteo unicinctus, Harris hawk
Plate 392 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

Lepidotes, fossil fish

Evening dress men 1951 - 52
Two Frenchmen in formal evening dress of a double- breasted dinner jacket with silk lapels & black tie or the more elegant tail coat with a white tie & waistcoat. Date: 1951

Mens eveing dress 1967
Frenchmans evening wear: black tuxedo, white double- breasted dinner jacket with long lapels & black tie or the more formally elegant tail coat, white tie & wing collar. Date: 1967

Imperial Airways Poster, Switzerland
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a Scylla passenger plane flying to Switzerland, with a mermaid and merman looking up in wonder. 1935

A tempting tail. Illustration shows Uncle Sam as a peacock displaying his tail feathers which are labeled Surplus. There are men on the right

A crashed biplane. Two policemen and several other bystanders pose for a photograph

Pigeons and doves on rooftops
A variety of pigeons and doves on rooftops. Date: circa early 20th century

Witch and goblins by Reverend Baden Powell
A delightful and typically Victorian sketch of a witch and her goblin friends, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell

Ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard
A quite utterly ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard, where a couple are hoodwinked into believing that the actions of a (not very) nearby donkey are actually the amorous advances of their partner

Drawing of a Sphinx, from a statue in the British Museum. By Ellen Philadelphia Smyth (1828-1881), an aunt of Robert Baden Powell. circa 1850s

Poster advertising Willss Gold Flake, showing a lovable basset hound bringing its master a slipper with an open box of cigarettes inside it. 20th century

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