Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a red and blue bird poised on a branch, with identification and description in pen in contemporary hand: A variety of the Indian Certhia; with different Trees and Shrubs on Salsette. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a brown bird poised on a branch, with identification and description in pen in contemporary hand: A variety in the Certhia Tribe; with wild Trees and Flowering Plants in the Concan. Figure has been cut out and pasted onto sheet, background details in pencil drawn in.
Item consists of a colour illustration of a small bird (possibly a sunbird) poised on a branch with red, five-petalled flowers next to a butterfly in flight. Figures have been cut out and pasted on leaf.
Item consists of a colour illustration of a small bird (possibly a sunbird) poised on a branch with red, five-petalled flowers next to a butterfly in flight. Figures have been cut out and pasted on leaf.
Item consists of leaf with engraved illustration of scorpion pasted on. Background details are drawn in in pencil, with branch coloured in. Later caption in Casey Woods's hand reads: "The drawing in this portfolio are probably those made to illustrate Forbes' 'Oriental Memoirs'."
Item consists of a colour illustration depicting a brown cobra and pink, five-petalled flowers, without caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet with background details drawn in. An annotation in pencil by Henry Mousley reads: "Naia tripudians?" Verso contains beginning of sketch of building and landscape (very faint).
Item consists of a colour illustration depicting a long blue and green snake perched on a fruit tree branch, without caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet.