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James Forbes Zoological Drawings With digital objects
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Green bird on branch

Item consists of a colour illustration of a green bird with red head, white throat, and dark tailfeathers, perched on a branch. No caption. Figure has been cut out and pasted on sheet.

A Variety in the Shooter Sun

Item consists of a colour illustration of a sea snake, among flowers. Figures have been cut out and pasted onto sheet, with background details drawn in. The caption describes the subject as "a large Water Snake, found in salt Marshy Grounds." An additional annotation in pencil by Henry Mousley identifies the species as: "Hydrophis obscurus."

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."

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