'The Black and Blue Creeper; and the Hoopoe Hen' opening door From an original specimen caught

From an original specimen caught at Brighton and brought to London for dissection in December 1812

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Engelbert Humperdinck meets Miss World Contestants 15th November 1970

'The Black and Blue Creeper; and the Hoopoe Hen' opening door From an original specimen caughtOrnithological studies of a Red legged honey creeper Cyanerpes cyaneus posed on a tree stump and showing the bright yellow underside of one wing; and the head of the 'Hoopoe hen', probably the Cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola. The plate also features a specimen of British moth. Plate 264 from chapter 54 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author,