Drawing of a White-throated Kingfisher from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia].

Painting of a dark, red-eyed bird with lighter chest and white belly. No background. Large number of very faint pencilled notes on front in lower left and upper right hand corners.

Drawing of a pair of White Wagtais--also known as a Pied Wagtails--from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Asia, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa].

Drawing of a White Stork from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.

Drawing of a White-fronted parrot from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: the Neotropics: Costa Rican moist forests, Central American dry and pine-oak forests, and the Yucatan Peninsula.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.

Painting in mat frame of a white and grey tern with darker bib and black headcap. Orange-red beak and feet. No background other than the suggestion of a beige rock and ground under the bird's body. Inscription below painting reads, "White-cheeked tern (Sterna albigena)."

Painting in mat frame of a small brown bird with long, thin beak, neck and back covered in brown and white speckled feathers, white underbelly and grey legs. Rocky piles at both the foreground and background, plain ground otherwise. Inscription at bottom left reads, "Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)."

Drawing of a Whimbrel from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: worldwide.] Attributed to Peter Paillou.

Drawing of a pair of Northern Wheatears from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and North America. Attributed to Collins, Charles].

Full scale painting of a brown raptor with lighter face, chest, and tail feathers. Branch perch and some background very vaguely and lightly sketched out, with much smaller bird drawn on another branch in the bottom right. Inscription below painting include, "Circus cinereus (52)," faintly pencilled in lower left corner, and pencilled in the centre below the painting, "Marsh Harrier (circus aeruginosus)," "circus aeruginosis vel spilunotus [sp?]," "[KS #41] or [44]."