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Love Bird: Rosy faced Love Birds indigenous to West Africa.

Owl: Brachyotus Palustris

Violet crowned Hummingbird.

Cockatiel: Red-Cheeked Nymphicus (Nymphicus Novae Hollandiae).

Eurasian Kingfisher with a Blue Iguana of Nevis.

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

Sparrow: Three Chinese dwarf sparrows with a Bee Hummingbird.

Turkey: American Wild Turkey and Common Domestic Turkey

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

Golden Oriole with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

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

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

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

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

Rook: Corvus Frugilegus.

Eggs: Mountain Finch, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Common Shrike, Hopoe, Blackbird, Bee eater, Cuckoo.

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

Cock and Hen.

Parrots: Six main varieties of parrots of the New World 1 Macaw, 2 Amazon parrot, 3 Parrot, 4 Cric, 5 Long-tailed parakeet and 6 Short-tailed parrot.

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

Parakeet: Blossom headed parakeet indigenous to India and South East Asia.

Kiwi: Apteryx Australis

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

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

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

Yellow Winged Pye of Guiana with the Greater Locust.

Chough: Fregilus Graculus, Red-billed Chough.

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

Hummingbirds: Oreopyra Leucaspis.

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

Spoonbill: Platalea Leucorodia.

Peacock (Pavo cristatus). After Josiah Wood Whymper with descriptive text.

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

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

Secretary bird (Falco serpentarius): The Serpent Eater native to central, eastern and southern Africa.

Parrots: 1 Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Psittacus Ararauna, 2 Red-tailed black Cockatoo (Psitt. magnificus), 3 Salmon-crested cockatoo (Psitt. moluccensis), 4 Moluccan King-Parrot (Psitt. amboinensis), 5 Red-breasted parakeet (Psitt. alexandri), and 6 Horned parakeet (Psitt, cornutus).

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

Hummingbirds: Amazilia Corallirostris.

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

Trochilus Tricolour

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.

Swainson’s Green lory. Trichoglossus Swainsonii.

Swans: 1 Hooper Swan, 2 Mute Swan, 3 Polish Swan and 4 Berwick’s Swan.

Hummingbirds: Discura Longicauda.

Hummingbirds: Phaethornis Oseryl.

White Leghorns. Cock and Hen.

Trochilus Rupus.

Cormorant: Pelicanus Sinensis. Fishing Cormorant of China.

Hummingbird. Trochilus Gramineus, Black breasted Hummingbird native to St Domingo.

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

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

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

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

Eggs: Song Thrush, Golden Crested Wren, Chimney Swallow, Common Wren, Jay, Kingfisher.

Peacock: Blue peacock (Pavo cristatus) with colourful and white peacocks.

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus): After Josiah Wood Whymper with descriptive text.

African Warbler with nest. Engraved by John Pass.

Pelican: After Josiah Wood Whymper with descriptive text.

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

Java Sparrow. Fringilla oryzivora.

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

Pye: Green Pye of Ceylon

Hummingbirds: Eriocnemis Squamata.

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

Hummingbird: Oreopyra Calolaema.

Hummingbird: Scaly backed Hummingbird (Trochilus Eurynome).

Stork: White stork.

Cocks and Hens: Game silver-spangled and Malay Cocks with Feathered Bantam, Dorking, Polish Black and Malay Hens.

Owl: Horned Owl from Athens.

Northern Hummingbird pair.

Parakeet: Yellow rumped parakeet (Golden Conure) indigenous to South and Central America.

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

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

Toucan: Yellow throated Toucan from South America via Jamaica.

Barn Owl. After Josiah Wood Whymper with descriptive text.

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

Love Bird: Red faced Love Birds indigenous to West Africa.

Macaw: Red and Blue Macaw (Macrocercus Aracanga).

Hummingbirds: Androdon Aequatorialis, Ecuadorian Tooth-bill.

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

Ampelis: The Crested Chatter of America. After George Edwards

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.

Fire-Backed or Crested forest pheasant of Java.

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

Swallows, Martins, Finches, Siskin and Sparrows.

Falcon: Falco rusipes.

Guillemots. Six types.

Swallow: Barn Swallow- Hirundo rustica with text. Founded in 1698, the SPCK is the oldest Anglican mission and publishing house of the Church of England.

Rosella: Pale headed or mealy Rosella indigenous to South Africa.

Bar Tailed and Gould’s Hummingbirds.

Congo Grey Parrot indigenous to equatorial Africa.

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

Tern and Gull eggs.

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

Hummingbird: Stoke’s Hummingbird (Trochilus Stokesii).

Splendid Parakeet named by John Gould and indigenous to Australia.

Golden Monarch and Sunda flycatchers. Muscicapa chrysomela and miniata.

Gold Pencilled Hamburghs. Cock and Hen.

Hummingbird: Eupetomena Hirundo, Western Swallow-tail.

Eggs: Crow, Raven, Robin, Wheatear, Gold Finch, Nightingale, Magpie, Haw Finch.