- CA RBD MSG BW003-32
- Item
- approximately 1811
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of two murre eggs, with the caption: "Genus Uria. Colymbus Linn. Uria Troile. Varieties in Eggs of the Foolish Guillemot."
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Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of two murre eggs, with the caption: "Genus Uria. Colymbus Linn. Uria Troile. Varieties in Eggs of the Foolish Guillemot."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of the eggs of the pied avocet and pied oystercatcher, identified by the caption as "Haematopus ostralegus (Pied Oystercatcher)" and "Recurvirostra Avosetta (Scooping Avoset)."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of three types of raptor eggs, entitled "Genus Falco." The eggs are identified as: 1. Falco Nisus (Sparrow Hawke) and 2. Falco Hirunculus (Kestrel), as well as a third "Variety in the Egg."
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a hoopoe poised on a Kamala orange branch next to a butterfly in flight, with identification, description, and two lines of verse written in pen in contemporary hand: Upupua Epops, Buff. Hodod, Hind. A beautiful variety of the Indian Sultana; On the Comlah, or Chinese Orange, from Aurung-abad. Drawn 1767. Copied 1811.
Baskets, which golden Comlahs held,/
Like Topazes with Amrit* swell'd.
(*Nectar)
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
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.
Spotted Pardalote (Diamond-Bird) (Pardalotus Punctatus)
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a pardalote or diamondbird, perched on a branch (partially uncoloured). A pencil caption by Henry Mousley identifies the bird. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Long-tailed Titmouse (Aegithalos caudatus)
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
Item consists of a colour illustration of a long-tailed tit, perched on a branch with a nest and insects. A pencil caption by Henry Mousley identifies the bird. Figures have been cut out and pasted on sheet with background details pencilled in.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
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.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
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.
Part of James Forbes Zoological Drawings
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.