EditorialParus Xanthogenys, Parus Monticolus. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist,he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascination with bi...
EditorialParus Erythrocephalus, Parus Melanolophus. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist,he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascination w...
EditorialBlue titmouse, Parus coeruleus, and flamboyant tanager, Ramphocelus ignescens. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural Histo...
EditorialGreat tit, Parus major, and long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialCommon nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, and goldcrest, Regulus regulus, on ivy leaves, Hedera helix. Cinereous tit, Parus cinereus, and great tit, Parus major, on a holly bush, Ilex aquifolium. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a dra...
EditorialGreat tit, Parus major. 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 engraver. He w...
EditorialLong-tailed titmouse or long-tailed tit, with pink, white and black plumage, shown perched on a branch above an oval nest revealing several speckled eggs... Aegithalos caudatus (Parus caudatus).
EditorialBlue tit, Parus caeruleus, and crested lark, Galerida cristata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology," Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by D...