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Hand-coloured plate of a turtle dove with pink legs perched on a mossy branch, labelled The Turtle Dove.

A natural history of British birds - Plate (page 51)

From: A natural history of British birds, 1775

Hand-coloured plate of a green broadbill bird with orange throat and blue head perched on a branch.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 10)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Sepia scientific plate of numbered fossil bones and a curved tooth of Hesperornis regalis, an extinct toothed bird.

Odontornithes: a monograph on the extinct toothed birds of North America - Plate II

From: Odontornithes: a monograph on the extinct toothed birds of North America, 1880

Hand-colored plate of two black-headed gulls, an adult in spring plumage and a young bird, on a rocky ledge.

The birds of America - Plate 443

John T. Bowen, 1871

Hand-coloured plate of two red and brown birds beside a branch with green leaves and pods, 1837.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 18)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of two dark grey birds with red throats perched on a branch with green leaves.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 22)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of two brown finch-like birds with yellow bills, one perched on a thorny branch and one in flight, with f

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 30)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-colored plate of two toucan-like birds with large bills perched on a branch, caption Pteroglossus Gouldii below.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 34)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of a pair of partridge-like birds with red and grey plumage and long black head plumes.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 42)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of a rufous bird with a white throat perched on grass, captioned Cursorius rufus, from 1837.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 46)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of a mottled brown nightjar-like bird with long tail feathers clinging to a tree trunk.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 58)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of a mottled brown bird with a long white tail streamer perched on a tree trunk beside ferns.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 62)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of two mottled brown nightjar birds perched on mossy ground beside ferns, with a Latin caption.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 70)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-coloured plate of a mottled brown nightjar perched on a rock beside a leafy green branch, labelled Lyncornis temminckii.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 74)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837

Hand-colored plate of two mottled brown nightjar-like birds perched on a branch with green leaves.

Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va - Plate (page 82)

From: Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from va, 1837