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Flying one climbing a tree, the other leaping

Watercolour, c. 1820
BL Add Or 4983

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2020-09-29

Birds in the park: Observations of the naturalhistory of the swallowtribe : with collateral statement of facts relative to their migration, and to their brvmal torpidity... by T & E Forster, 1817, BHL/Uni California, https://t.co/KaeAISzECX

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2020-09-15

Need a reason to smile today? Take a look at these "rare bird" illustrations found in the Oak Spring Garden Library. Watercolors are from "Raccolta d'ucellami rari esressi al naturale" by Giuseppe Fiorenzo Vanni (Turin, 1700s).

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2020-09-11

Amphibians in the park: The frog book, by Mary Cynthia Dickerson......1907, BHL/Smithsonian, https://t.co/PGqZ0TtSen

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2020-08-21

Natural history and the park: Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud : de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para, by Francois Castelnau et al, BHL/Smithsonian, 6 vols......https://t.co/v7JjVcLID7

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2020-08-21

Natural history and the park: The Naturalist's Miscellany, vol. 22, by George Shaw et al...........BHL/Museums Victoria, https://t.co/L3VWsyK7vC

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2020-08-19

Wood Warblers; two birds perched on the branch of a pine tree, by (Scottish, 1823-1909), who died (Aug 9). Pl 38 in “Birds drawn from Nature,” Edinburgh, 1862. Held at the , https://t.co/wNuM2i1hYZ

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2020-08-09

Artist Chet Phillips offers a new spin on some of the most of our time. In his latest artistic installment, the illustrator depicts icons as vintage, taxonomic pieces in his series entitled, https://t.co/2rVJS3IGSZ

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2020-08-07

Phlox “Asia,” first half of the C20th, by (English, 1873–1961), who died (Aug 4). Plate 272 Addisonia; source, , https://t.co/a95hjAIYyI

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2020-08-04

Natural history and the park: Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India........by J Forbes and WJ Hooker.....1813, BHL/NHML....4 vols..........https://t.co/ETBI7tQCZ9

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2020-08-01

Natural history and the park: The Swan and her crew, or, The adventures of three young naturalists and sportsmen on the broads and rivers of Norfolk, by GC Davies, 1889, BHL/Uni California, https://t.co/WJhyZBZIN8

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2020-07-26

Natural history and the park: Voyages d'un naturaliste, et ses observations : faites sur les trois règnes de la nature, by ME Descourtilz, 3 vols, 1893, BHL/Smithsonian ........ https://t.co/wDsjb1nSnd

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2020-07-21