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James Forbes Zoological Drawings With digital objects
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Black-winged Stilt, Common Kingfisher, and Sarus Crane

Item consists of one page featuring three colour illustrations of birds cut out and pasted on leaf. The birds are identified by later handwritten pencil captions. The birds are identified in the captions as: Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus), Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), and Sarus Crane (Megaloris antigone). An additional note indicates that the drawing of the crane corresponds to volume II, page 288 of Forbes's "Oriental Memoirs" (the "Sahras or Demoiselle of Guzerat.")

Nests of the Baya with the Mahudavi Creeper

Item consists of colour illustration of hoopoe perched on a Madhavi lata, or rangoon creeper, with caption in contemporary hand. Additional later pencil notes provide the additional identification "Baya Weaver Bird (Ploceus baya)" and indicate that the image corresponds to Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, 1813, volume 1, page 48.

A variety in the Certhia Tribe

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.

Small bird on a branch

Item consists of a colour illustration of a small green bird with a white head, perched on a branch with flowers. No caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet.

Two black birds perched on a fruit tree branch

Item consists of a colour illustration featuring two darkly coloured birds, with black heads and tails and lighter chests, perched on a branch of a fruit tree, possibly a plum tree. A bee is poised on the fruit. No caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet.

Swans and duck

Item cosists of a black and white illustration featuring two swans and one duck against an unfinished background of a pond. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.

Two birds on a branch

Item consists of partially coloured illustration featuring two birds perched on a branch, possibly of a plum tree. One bird has a white body with black wings and lighter head, second bird is brown with white throat and black markings on head. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.

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