EditorialOidemia fusca, Print, The velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca), also called a velvet duck, is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia west of the Yenisey basin.The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek melas "black" and netta...
EditorialBoa melanura, Print, Tropidophis melanurus, commonly known as dusky dwarf boa, Cuban wood snake, or Cuban giant dwarf boa, is a non-venomous dwarf boa species found mainly in Cuba. Currently, there are three subspecies recognized, including the typical...
EditorialOidemia fusca, Print, The velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca), also called a velvet duck, is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia west of the Yenisey basin.The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek melas "black" and netta...
EditorialNectarinia fusca, Print, The dusky sunbird (Cinnyris fuscus) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. This relatively dull sunbird is found in arid savanna, thickets and shrubland (e.g. Karoo) in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa., 1...
EditorialScolopax saturata, Print, The Javan woodcock or rufous woodcock (Scolopax saturata) is a small wader. It is smaller than Eurasian woodcock, and has much darker plumage. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the New Guinea woodcock and calle...
EditorialApogon trimaculatus, Print, Pristicon trimaculatus, the 'three-spot cardinalfish, is a nocturnal fish that lives in the Western Pacific Ocean, living around inshore coral reefs in waters around the Ryukyu Islands and Western Australia and the southern ...
EditorialA View in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. Date/Period: 1773. Painting. Oil on panel oil on panel. Height: 810 mm (31.88 in); Width: 795 mm (31.29 in).
EditorialMaori family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. The man holds a taiaha club, the woman a spear, and all wear cloaks of skins or leaves. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Francesco Rosaspina after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Cost...
EditorialAlecthelia urvillii (believed to be a juvenile dusky scrubfowl, Megapodius freycineti), and red-billed brushturkey, Talegalla cuvieri. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838.
EditorialDante's Divine Comedy, Inferno by Gustave Doré. Plate 1: Dante in the dusky woods. A dozen specimens of Gustave Dore? from his Inferno of Dante, Fairy Tales of Perrault, and Captain Castagnette of Manuel. London, [1866]. Source: 1871.e.20.
EditorialA family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage, 1768-1771. Source: Add. 23920, f.53. Language: English.
EditorialA plan of Dusky Bay in New Zealand. Sixty-Seven Charts and maps illustrating the voyages and surveys of Capt. James Cook, R.N., and other discoverers. circa 1760-1780. Source: Add. 31360, No.55.
EditorialChart showing part of South island, New Zealand. Dusky bay is indicated. SIXTY-SEVEN Charts and maps illustrating the voyages and surveys of Capt. James Cook, R.N., and other discoverers; circ. 1760- 1780. c 1760-1780. Source: Add. 31360, no.47.
EditorialDante's Divine Comedy, Inferno by Gustave Doré. Plate 1: Dante in the dusky woods. A dozen specimens of Gustave Dore? from his Inferno of Dante, Fairy Tales of Perrault, and Captain Castagnette of Manuel. London, [1866]. Source: 1871.e.20.
EditorialA Plan of Dusky Bay, New Zealand, 26 March-3 May 1773 Shows ship’s track. Detail of Pickersgills Harbour with Ships Cove, Astronomers Point and Crayfish Island.Panoramas of A View of the South Entrance into Duskey Bay and A View of the North Entranc...
EditorialA chart showing parts of New Zealand, including Dusky Bay. SIXTY-SEVEN Charts and maps illustrating the voyages and surveys of Capt. James Cook, R.N., and other discoverers; circ. 1760- 1780. 1773. Source: Add. 31360, no.56.
EditorialFish of the family Cyprinidae. 1839 - 1840. Fish of the family Cyprinidae Genus 'Barilius', possibly 'Barilius tileo' Original inscriptions: 'Opsarius. Girth extreme 7 1/2 inch. Back- slaty blue metallic. Vertically olivaceous- this part is abrupt. Sid...
EditorialA View in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. Date/Period: 1773. Painting. Oil on panel oil on panel. Height: 810 mm (31.88 in); Width: 795 mm (31.29 in).
EditorialMaori family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand. The man holds a taiaha club, the woman a spear, and all wear cloaks of skins or leaves. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Francesco Rosaspina after William Hodges from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Cost...
EditorialAlecthelia urvillii (believed to be a juvenile dusky scrubfowl, Megapodius freycineti), and red-billed brushturkey, Talegalla cuvieri. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838.
EditorialDusky coral pea, Camptosema rubicundum, native to Australia. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1851.
EditorialSeathorn hawk-moth, Hyles hippophaes, dusky hawkmoth, Hyles vespertilio, and spurge hawkmoth, Hyles euphorbiae. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of E...
EditorialDusky-throated hermit, Phaethornis squalidus (Trochilus squalidus). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbirds, Histoire Naturell...
EditorialDusky parrot, Pionus fuscus (Psittacus infuscatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.
EditorialDusky parrot, Pionus fuscus. (Lesser dusky parrot, Psittacus sordidus or P. spectrum). Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialWhite-crested helmetshrike, Prionops plumatus, and dusky woodswallow, Artamus cyanopterus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by ...
EditorialWhite-crested helmetshrike, Prionops plumatus, and dusky woodswallow, Artamus cyanopterus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved ...
EditorialDusky lark, Pinarocorys nigricans. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and eng...