Item consists of a colour illustration of a snake among a six-petalled pink flower (Pride of India). Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet with background details pencilled in. The caption identifies the species as a "Cobra Minelle," which is described in the Oriental Memoirs, volume 1, chapter 3, as "the smallest, and most dangerous; the bite occasions a speedy and painful death. They are of a brown colour, speckled with black and white, though at a distance not easily distinguished from the ground on which they move." An additional pencil annotation by Henry Mousley identifies the species as "Tropidonotus stolatus."

Item consists of a colour illustration of a snake alongside dissected pieces from a strychnine tree. Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet. The caption identifies the tree as a "Strychnos Nux Vomica." The rest of the caption identifies the snake depicted as "a small Coluber in many parts of India; seemingly a Variety of the Cobra Minelle." An additional pencil annotation by Henry Mousley identifies the species of snake as "Tropidonotus stolatus (var.)" The drawing is signed by James Forbes and dated 1818.

Item consists of a colour illustration of five types of titmouse eggs (including coal tit, great tit and blue tit), with caption: "Genus Parus. 1 Parus major. Great Titmouse. 2 Parus palustris. Marsh Titmouse. 3 Parus caudalus. Long-tailed Titmouse. 4 Parus ater. Cole Titmouse. 5 Parus caeruleus. Blue Titmouse."

Item consists of a colour drawing of a snake. The caption identifies the species as "Anguis." The rest of the caption reads: "called by the Natives Hoogli-pattee. A Fowl bitten in the thigh by this Reptile, expired in five minutes." An additional pencil annotation by Henry Mousley identifies the species as "Hydrophis schistosus" (beaked sea snake).

Item consists of a colour illustration of a small boa, with some background details unfinished. Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet, with background details drawn in. The caption reads: "A young Snake of the Boa Tribe; of a harmless nature, and found in many parts of India." An additional annotation in pencil by Henry Mousley identifies the species as: "Distira jerdonii."

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of eggs, with caption: "Genus Scolopax. 1 Scolopax Calidris Red shank. 2. Scolopax Gallinago Common Snipe. 3 Scolopax Aegocephala Godwit."

Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of dove eggs, with caption: "Genus Columba. 1 C. Palumbus. Ring-Dove. 2 C. Aenas. Rock-Dove. 3 C. Turtur. Turtle-Dove."

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."

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."

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."