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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. 

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

Trochilus Rupus.

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

Swallows, Martins, Finches, Siskin and Sparrows.

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

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

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

Collared Phesant, Java Cockrel and hen.

Spoonbill: Platalea Leucorodia.

Pale headed or mealy Rosella.

Cormorant: Pelicanus Sinensis. Fishing Cormorant of China.

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

African Warbler with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

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

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

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

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

Hummingbirds: Phaethornis Striigularis.

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

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

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

Hummingbirds: Eriocnemis Squamata.

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

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

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

Guillemots. Six types.

Hummingbirds: Androdon Aequatorialis, Ecuadorian Tooth-bill.

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

Violet crowned Hummingbird.

Hummingbirds: Amazilia Corallirostris.

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

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

Pye: Green Pye of Ceylon

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

Northern Hummingbird pair.

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

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

Fire-Backed or Crested forest pheasant of Java.

Trochilus Moschitus.

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

Golden Oriole with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

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

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.

Doubtful Toucan: Ramphastos ambiguou from Brazil.

Trogon: Trogon Macroura.

Owl: Horned Owl from Athens.

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

Congo Grey Parrot indigenous to equatorial Africa.

Hummingbird: Eupetomena Hirundo, Western Swallow-tail.

Hummingbirds: Oreopyra Leucaspis.

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

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

Trochilus Gramineus, Black breasted Hummingbird native to St Domingo.

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

Java Sparrow. Fringilla oryzivora.

Hummingbirds: Discura Longicauda.

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

Trogon: Trogan Ardens, Rosy-breasted Trogon.

Golden Monarch and Sunda flycatchers. Muscicapa chrysomela and miniata.

Yellow Winged Pye of Guiana with the Greater Locust.

Hummingbird: Oreopyra Calolaema.

Hummingbirds: Oreopyra Cinereicaud.

Rook: Corvus Frugilegus.

Splendid Parakeet named by John Gould and indigenous to Australia.

Kiwi: Apteryx Australis

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

White Leghorns. Cock and Hen.

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

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

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.

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

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

Swainson’s Green lory. Trichoglossus Swainsonii.

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

Tern and Gull eggs.

Chough: Fregilus Graculus, Red-billed Chough.

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

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

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

Bar Tailed and Gould’s Hummingbirds.

Trochilus Mango.

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

Toucan: Yellow throated Toucan from South America via Jamaica.

Trogon: Trogon Neoxenuts.

Hummingbirds: Phaethornis Oseryl.

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

Gold Pencilled Hamburghs. Cock and Hen.

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

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

Owl: Brachyotus Palustris

Eurasian Kingfisher with a Blue Iguana of Nevis.

Trochilus Tricolour