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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 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 Meleagris

Item consists of a colour illustration of two turkey eggs, with the caption: "Genus Meleagris. Meleagris Gallo-parro -- Two varieties of the Turkey."

Eggs of different Sea Fowl

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)."

Genus Falco

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."

Upupa Epops

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)

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.

Long-tailed Titmouse (Aegithalos caudatus)

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.

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