Robins Gallery

Victorian stuffed animals at Potters Museum of Curiosity in Bolventor, Cornwall

5th April 1973: Victorian stuffed animals created by taxidermist Walter Potter at Potter's Museum of Curiosity in Bolventor, Cornwall. Potter created tableaux based on nursery rhymes, among them, The House That Jack Built, The Guinea Pigs Cricket Match, and The Death and Burial of Cock Robin'. (Photo by Graham French/BIPs/Getty Images)

European songbirds, chromolithograph, published in 1897

European songbirds: 1) Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos, or Erithacus luscinia); 2) Robin (Erithacus rubecula); 3) Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla); 4) Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); 5) Song thrush (Turdus philomelos, or Turdus musicus); 6) Starling (Sturnus vulgaris); 7) Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs); 8) Siskin (Spinus spinus, or Chrysomitris spinus); 9) Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis, or Carduelis elegans); 10) Linnet (Linaria cannabina, or Acanthis cannabina); 11) Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula, or Pyrrhula europaea); 12) Parrot crossbill (Loxia pytyopsittacus); 13) Skylark (Alauda arvensis); 14) Great tit (Parus major); 15) blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus, or Parus caeruleus). Chromolithograph after a drawing by Friedrich Specht (German painter, 1839 - 1909), published in 1897

Eggs of European birds, lithograph, published in 1897

Eggs of European birds: 1) Kingfisher; 2) Bee-eater; 3) Black woodpecker; 4) Lesser spotted woodpecker; 5) Roller; 6) Eagle-owl; 7) Long-eared owl; 8) Scops owl; 9) Pygmy owl; 10) Tawny owl; 11) Nightjar; 12) Hoopoe; 13) Swift; 14) Long-tailed tit; 15) Penduline tit; 16) Bearded reedling; 17) Great tit; 18) Marsh tit; 19) Blue tit; 20) Nuthatch; 21) Treecreeper; 22) Wryneck; 23) Wren; 24) Goldcrest; 25) Firecrest; 26) Barn swallow; 27) House martin ; 28) Sand martin; 29) Zilpzalp; 30) Lesser whitethroat; 31) Orphean warbler; 32) Cuckoo; 33) Goshawk; 34) Sparrowhawk; 35) Red kite; 36) Golden eagle; 37) Osprey; 38) Peregrine falcon; 39) Kestrel; 40) Honey buzzard ; 41) Hen harrier; 42) Great grey shrike; 43) Red-backed shrike; 44) Crested tit; 45) Robin; 46) Nightingale; 47) Bluethroat; 48) Dunnock; 49) Spotted flycatcher; 50) Pied flycatcher; 51) Red-breasted flycatcher; 52) Whitethroat; 53) Blackcap; 54) Stonechat; 55) Whinchat; 56) Wheatear; 57) Starling; 58) Golden oriole; 59) Rock thrush; 60) Fieldfare; 61) Song thrush; 62) True thrush; 63) Mistle thrush; 64) Raven; 65) Jackdaw; 66) Alpine chough; 67) Magpie; 68) Jay; 69) Great reed warbler; 70) Reed warbler; 71) Sedge warbler; 72) Tree warbler; 73) Tree pipit; 74) Meadow pipit; 75) Wood warbler; 76) Western yellow wagtail; 77) White wagtail; 78) Skylark. Lithograph, published in 1897