Western Collection (page 21)

Red-throated bee-eater, Merops bulocki (Blue-bellied bee-eater, Merops cyanogaster). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer
Yellow-crowned bishop or Napoleon weaver, Euplectes afer (Yellow-crowned weaver, Ploceus flaviceps). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Reed cormorant, Microcarbo africanus (Long-tailed cormorant, Carbo longicaudus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Greater crested tern, Thalasseus bergii (Crested tern, Sterna cristata). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Black crake, Zapornia flavirostra (Yellow-billed waterhen, Gallinula flavirostra). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Grey-headed gull (African), Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus (Grey cap d gull, Larus poiocephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William

African wattled lapwing, Vanellus senegallus
African wattled lapwing or Senegal wattled plover, Vanellus senegallus (Striped-throated lapwing, Vanellus strigilatus). handcoloured, steel engraving, William Lizars, William Swainson, illustration

Little ringed plover, Charadrius dubius curonicus (Black-zoned plover, Charadrias zonatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Temmincks courser, Cursorius temminckii (Senegal courier, Tachydromus senegalensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Double-banded sandgrouse, Pterocles bicinctus, female (Three-banded sandgrouse, Pterocles tricinctus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Klss cuckoo, Chrysococcyx kls (Klass golden cuckoo, Chalcites klassii). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Senegal coucal, Centropus senegalensis
Senegal coucal or Senegal lark-heel, Centropus senegalensis. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Green-headed sunbird (Lower Guinea), Cyanomitra verticalis cyanocephala (Olive-backed sunbird, Cinnyris chloronotus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir

Copper sunbird, Cinnyris cupreus (Fire-backed sunbird, Cinnyris erythronotus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Giant kingfisher, Megaceryle maxima gigantea (Great African kingfisher, Ispida gigantea). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Swallow-tailed bee-eater, Merops hirundineus (Fork-tailed, blue-vented bee-eater, Merops hirundinaceus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William

Northern carmine bee-eater, Merops nubicus (Blue-headed bee-eater, Merops caeruleocephalus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Blue-cheeked bee-eater, Merops persicus (Merops savigni). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Mosque swallow, Cecropis senegalensis (Great Senegal swallow, Hirundo senegalensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Pennant-winged nightjar, Macrodipteryx vexillarius (Macrodipteryx africanus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Annobon paradise flycatcher, Terpsiphone smithii. Vulnerable
Annobon paradise flycatcher, Terpsiphone smithii, Vulnerable. (Rufous-bellied flycatcher, Muscipeta rufiventer). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William

Javan white eye, Zosterops flavus (Yellow white eye, Zosterops flava). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Tawny-flanked prinia, Prinia subflava (White-eyebrowed longtail, Drymoica superciliosa). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

African golden oriole, Oriolus auratus. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa

Woodland kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis (Rufous-vented kingfisher, Halcyon rufiventer). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Title page with vignette of two rose-ringed parakeet, Psittacula krameri, in a jungle setting. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines

Western hoolock gibbon, Hoolock hoolock. Endangered. (Hoolock, Hylobates hoolock.) Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardines

Red-billed streamertail, Trochilus polytmus (Black-headed hummingbird, Western streamertail). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library: Ornithology

Black grouse and western capercaillie
Black grouse or blackgame, Tetrao tetrix, and western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849

White wagtail and western yellow wagtail
White wagtail, Motacilla alba 1, 2, egg 4, and western yellow wagtail, Motacilla flava 3, egg 5. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849

Western grasswren and blackbird
Western grasswren, Amytornis textilis 1 and common blackbird with nest and eggs, Turdus merula 2. Merion, Merle commun. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by Adolph Fries

Green lizard, wall lizard and viviparous lizard
Western green lizard, Lacerta bilineata 2, wall lizard, Podarcis muralis 3 and viviparous lizard, Zootoca vivipara 4. Lezard vert, des murailles, de Guerin

California spicebush or western sweetshrub, Calycanthus occidentalis. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Natives of the island of Palau (Pelew). King Abba-Thulle with tattoos, his second son Prince Lee-Boo in western dress who later died of smallpox in England

Western blue-banded forester and African giant skipper
Western blue-banded forester, Euphaedra eupalus (Nymphalis erithonius) 1, 2, and African giant skipper, Pyrrhochalcia iphis (Hesperia iphis) 3, 4, ventral and dorsal

Western emperor swallowtail and Indian sunbeam
Western emperor swallowtail, Papilio menestheus 1, 2, and Indian sunbeam, Curetis thetis (Thecla thetis), female 3, 4, ventral and dorsal views. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Eudoxus charaxes and western nightfighter
Eudoxus charaxes butterfly, Nymphalis Charaxes eudoxus mechowi, upper side 1, under side 4, and western nightfighter, Artitropa comus, Hesperia helops, dorsal 2, ventral 3

Common dotted border, western dotted border
Common dotted border butterfly, Mylothris rhodope 1, 2, western dotted border, Mylothris chloris 3, 4, diverse white or African albatross, Appias epaphia, upper side 5, under side 6

Garden acraea, common bematistes, and western
Garden acraea butterfly, Acraea horta upper side 1, under side 2, common bematistes, Bematistes epaea A. gea male 3, 4, and western incipient false acraea, Pseudacraea hostilia, Nymphalis hostilia 5

Western glider and gaudy commodore butterfly
Western glider, Cymothoe althea, Nymphalis althea, under side 1, upper side 2, and gaudy commodore, Precis octavia Vanessa amestris 3, 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Western grey squirrel, Sciurus griseus clarkii. (Clarks squirrel, Sciurus clarkii.) Drawn by Charles Hamilton Smith at the Philadelphia Museum

Northwestern Bank Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Date: 1935

Railroad Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Denver, Rio Grande and Western Pacific Union Depot (Railroad Station), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Western Promenade, Portland, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1915

Chief Wolf Robe, Cheyenne Indian, Oklahoma, USA
Chief Wolf Robe (1846-1910) of the southern Cheyenne Indian tribe, western Oklahoma, USA. Date: 1900s

Advert for Punch Magazine, WW1
Advert for Punch Magazine -- Our Soldiers love a laugh, send them Punch. 1915

Soldier guarding GWR railway line at Slough
Soldier guarding the GWR railway line at Slough, 30 September 1919. 1919

Bridge wrecked by Germans, La Ferte Sous Jouarre, WW1
Bridge wrecked by Germans to prevent the approach of the British at La Ferte Sous Jouarre, northern France, September 1914, in the early stages of the First World War. 1914

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