The 'rice-bird' Helena The Queen and Prince Philip

The Queen and Prince Philip stand in an open car during a drive through Munich

showing Cumberland Villas and part of Chester Terrace

In the foreground a figure clears rubble

The plate is inscribed: 'Taf

to the left a woman is holding a stick over her kneeling husband and twisting his nose

The 'rice-bird' Helena The Queen and Prince PhilipBird identified by Catesby as 'Hortulanus caroliniensis', the rice bird (modern scientific name: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the bobolink), perched on a stalk of rice, Oryza sativa. Plate 14 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731