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This page represents only a small part of our collection of original Antique ornithological prints. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself. For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us. 

Bar Tailed and Gould’s Hummingbirds.

Fly catcher (Musicapa). Crested Fly catcher with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

Trochilus Gramineus, Black breasted Hummingbird native to St Domingo.

Black necked Swan. Cygnus nigricollis. Drawn from life at the Zoological Society’s Vivarium

Toucan: Yellow throated Toucan from South America via Jamaica.

Hummingbirds and Dormouse: Red Breasted and Green Throated Hummingbirds of Surinam with an English Dormouse.

Manchurian Crane. Grus montignesia. Drawn from life at the society’s Vivarium.

Trochilus Rupus.

Hyacinthine Macaw. Iindigenous to South America.

Golden Monarch and Sunda flycatchers. Muscicapa chrysomela and miniata.

Yellow Winged Pye of Guiana with the Greater Locust.

Iceland Falcon. Falcio islandicus. Drawn from life at the Zoological Society’s Vivarium.

Collared Phesant, Java Cockrel and hen.

White Leghorns. Cock and Hen.

Great Salmon Crested Cockatoo indigenous to the Seram archipelago in Indonesia.

Trochilus Moschitus.

Northern Hummingbird pair.

Quail: Chinese Fighting Quail from Nanquin with a Guernsey Sand Lizard propagated in Surrey.

Eurasian Kingfisher with a Blue Iguana of Nevis.

Little Owl: Athena Noctua. Not native to Great Britain this Little Owl came down a chimney near the Tower and was kept as a pet.

Trochilus Tricolour

Pye: Green Pye of Ceylon

Golden Oriole with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

Ostrich with descriptive text. Founded in 1698, the SPCK is the oldest Anglican mission and publishing house of the Church of England.

Turkey with descriptive text. Founded in 1698, the SPCK is the oldest Anglican mission and publishing house of the Church of England.

Saker Falcon. Falcio sacer. Drawn from life at the Zoological Society’s Vivarium.

Pale headed or mealy Rosella.

Toucan: Green billed Toucan from Cayenne, Guiana With life size detail of bill.

Hummingbirds: Androdon Aequatorialis, Ecuadorian Tooth-bill.

Cockerel with descriptive text: Founded in 1698, the SPCK is the oldest Anglican mission and publishing house of the Church of England.

Guillemots. Six types.

African Warbler with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

Heron, Bitterns, Goose, Swan, Ducks, Gadwall and Shoveler.

First described by German naturalist Johann Gmelin in 1788, it is indigenous to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Trogon: Trogon Neoxenuts.

Flycatcher: Golden-winged Flycatcher of Pennsylvania and a Tortoiseshell Butterfly of China.

Spoonbill: Platalea Leucorodia.

Rook: Corvus Frugilegus.

Mantell’s Apteryx (North Island Kiwi). Apteryx mantelli. Drawn from life at the Zoological Society’s Vivarium

Hummingbirds: Phaethornis Striigularis.

Swallows, Martins, Finches, Siskin and Sparrows.

Golden Capped Parakeet of Brazil with a Green and Blue Parrot.

Cormorant: Pelicanus Sinensis. Fishing Cormorant of China.

Hummingbirds: Eriocnemis Squamata.

Swainson’s Green lory. Trichoglossus Swainsonii.

Hawaiian Goose: After Florent Prevost, ornithologist on the voyage of La Bonite 1836-7.

Golden Eagle with descriptive text. Founded in 1698, the SPCK is the oldest Anglican mission and publishing house of the Church of England.

Hummingbirds: Phaethornis Oseryl.

Greenland Falcon. Falcio greenlandicus. Saker Falcon. Falcio sacer. Drawn from life at the society’s Vivarium.

Parrots: Carolina and Nonpareil Parrot. Psittacus Carolinensis and eximius.

Worm eating New World Warbler with a wood eating Capricorn Beetle.

Stork: Australian Mycteria. Myceteria australis. Drawn from life at the society’s Vivarium.

Corvus: Black-crested Jay of China (Corvus cirrhatus). After Johann Lebrecht Reinold, engraved by John Pass.

Violet crowned Hummingbird.

Pintail, Teal, Garganey, Wigeon, Pochard, Duck, Eider, Goosander and Merganser.

Patagonian Penguin and Magellanic Penguin. After George Edwards. Engraved by John Pass.

Swift: Macropteryx longipennis. Long winged crested Swift with detail of beak and clawed feet.

Whitethroats, Blackcaps, Warblers, Wrens, Chiffchaffs, Sparrows, Reedling, Tits and Dipper.

Hummingbirds: Discura Longicauda.

Condor: After Florent Prevost, ornithologist on the voyage of La Bonite 1836-7.

Owl: Horned Owl from Athens.

Warbler (Motacilla). Pinc Pinc grass warbler with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

Doubtful Toucan: Ramphastos ambiguou from Brazil.

Hummingbirds: Oreopyra Cinereicaud.

Pye: Short-tailed Pye of the East Indies with an Elephant beetle.

Dodo with Guinea Pig: After the life painting by Jan Savery. Edwards elegant depiction of the rather dumpy Dodo, extinct by 1662, became the basis for subsequent illustrations including that in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Java Sparrow. Fringilla oryzivora.

Trogon: Trogon Macroura.

Trogon: Trogan Ardens, Rosy-breasted Trogon.

Splendid Parakeet named by John Gould and indigenous to Australia.

Red breasted or Mustached Parakeet. Purchased by Edwards in London from an East India ship.

Tanagars: Paradise and Blue capped Tanagars. Tanagra tatao and cynocephala.

Hummingbirds: Eriocnemis Aureliae, Aurelia’s Puff-leg.

Kiwi: Apteryx Australis

Hummingbird: Oreopyra Calolaema.

Owl: Brachyotus Palustris

Redbird: Phaenicornis flammeus. Orange redbird from Southern India. With detail of beak.

Tern and Gull eggs.

Brasilian Green Macaw. Pet of Lord Carpenter, drawn from life by the ‘Father of British Ornithology’.

Gold Pencilled Hamburghs. Cock and Hen.

Hummingbirds: Oreopyra Leucaspis.

Cockatoo:Lesser Lemon-Crested Cockatoo. Indigenous to Celebes (Sulawesi) and the Lesser Sundas in the Malay Archipelago.

Wagtail: Yellow Water Wagtail perched on a stone from the Giant’s Causeway with two sides of a Walking Leaf insect.

Catchers, Avocet, Phalarope, Woodcocks, Snipes, Dunlins, Ruffs, Sandpipers and Redshanks.

Alcids: Puffin (Coulternel) and Auk (Razorbil)l. Two species of the same characteristics as the Great Auk which was driven to extinction in 1844.

Congo Grey Parrot indigenous to equatorial Africa.

Chough: Fregilus Graculus, Red-billed Chough.

Blue Mountain (Swainson’s) Lory indigenous to Australia and Tasmania

Trochilus Mango.

Shrike: Blue Shrike and Red throated Shrike. Lanius bicolour and guttaralis.

Hummingbirds: Amazilia Corallirostris.

Wall Creeper or Spider Catcher (Tichodroma muraria): With detail of the crown of the head and a tail feather quill.

Fire-Backed or Crested forest pheasant of Java.

Hummingbird: Eupetomena Hirundo, Western Swallow-tail.