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James Forbes Zoological Drawings With digital objects
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A variety of the Paterah

Item consists of a pencil and partially coloured illustration of a brown bird with blue neck poised on a branch with large leaves and pink flower, with description in pen in contemporary hand: A variety of the Paterah, in the Concan, with the Pomegranate and Juncea. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.

Seagull on a rock

Item consists of a colour illustration of a seagull against a partial landscape of a rock and plants. No caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet.

Chickens feeding

Item consists of a black and white illustration of a rooster, chicken, and four chicks feeding, against a full landscape. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.

Blue bird on fruit tree

Item consists of a colour illustration of a bird with blue upper parts and white lower parts (possibly a Nepal house martin?), perched on fruit tree branch. No caption. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet.

Genus Corvus

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of corvid eggs, entitled "Genus Corvus." The eggs are identified as: 1. Corvus Corax (Raven); 2. Corvus Corone (Carrion Crow); 3. Corvus frugilegus (Rook). Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet.

Genus Sterna

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of tern eggs, with the caption: "Genus Sterna. 1 Sterna Hirundo. Common Tern. 2 Sternus fissipes. Black Tern. 3 Sterna minuta. Lesser Tern."

Genus Turdus

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of thrush eggs, with caption: "Genus Turdus. 1 Turdus viscivorus. Missel Thrush. 2 Turdus musicus. Song Thrush. 3 Turdus merula. Blackbird."

Genus Sylvia. Motacilla. Lin. Syst.

Item consists of a colour illustration of six types of eggs of woodland birds (that Forbes identifies as belonging to the genus Motacilla). Species identified in the caption are as follows: "1 Sylvia Aenanthe. Wheatear. 2 Sylvia Rubecula. Redbreast. 3 Sylvia Rubicola. Stonechat. 4 Sylvia Rubetra. Whinchat. 5 Sylvia Troglodytes. Common Wren. 6 Sylvia Regulus. Golden-crested Wren."

Genus Corvus

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of corvid eggs, with the caption: "Genus Corvus. 1 Corvus monedula Jackdaw. 2 Corvus glandarius Jay. 3 Corvus pica Magpie."

Genus Perdix

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of partridge eggs, with caption: "Genus Perdix. 1 Perdix Rufa. Red-legged Partridge. 2 Perdix cinerea. Common Partridge. 3 Perdix Cortunix. Quail."

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