Zapodidae Gallery

Edible and toxic mushrooms, chromolithograph, published in 1897

Edible mushrooms, top: 1) Saffron milk cap (Lactarius deliciosus); 2) Morel (Morchella esculenta); 3) Ramaria aurea (or Clavaria flava); 4) Gyromitra esculenta (or Helvella esculenta); 5) Golden chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius); 6) PA©rigord truffle (Tuber melanosporum); 7) Sweet tooth (Hydnum repandum); 8) Slippery jack (Suillus luteus, or Boletus luteus); 9) Penny bun (Boletus edulis); 10) The Miller (Clitopilus prunulus, or Agaricus prunulus); 11) Parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera, Lepiota procera or Agaricus procerus); 12) Meadow mushroom (Agaricus campestris); 13) Birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum, or Boletus scaber). Toxic mushrooms, bottom: 1) False chanterelle (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, or Cantharellus aurantiacus); 2) The Sickener (Russula emetica); 3) Death cap (Amanita phalloides, or Agaricus phalloides); 4) Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum, or Scleroderma aurantiacum); 5) Grass green russula (Russula aeruginea, or Russula furcata); 6) woolly milkcap (Lactarius torminosus); 7) Bitter beech bolete (Caloboletus calopus, or Boletus pachypus); 8) Satan's bolete (Rubroboletus satanas, or Boletus Satanas); 9) Yellow stagshorn (Calocera viscosa); 10) Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria, or Agaricus muscarius); 11) Sulphur tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare, or Agaricus fascicularis); 12) Lurid bolete (Suillellus luridus, or Boletus luridus). Chromolithograph, published in 1897

Different Non-european songbirds illustration 1897

Different birds
Original edition from my own archives
Source : "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon" 1897
Non-European songbirds: 1) Waxbill (Habropyga astrild, or Estrilda astrild); 2) Black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes, or Habropyga cinerea); 3) Red avadavat (Amandava amandava, or Pytelia amandava); 4) Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata, or Zonaeginthus castanotis); 5) Cut-throat finch (Amadina fasciata, or Spermestes fasciata); 6) Bronze mannikin (Lonchura cucullata, or Spermestes cucullata); 7) Black-headed weaver (Ploceus melanocephalus, or Hyphantornis melanocephalus); 8) Long-tailed paradise whydah (Vidua paradisaea); 9) Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora, or Padda oryzivora); 10) Brazilian tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius, or Ramphocelus brasiliensis); 11) Red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea, or Leiothrix luteus); 12) Red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana); 13) Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis, or Cardinalis virginianus)

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Purple-throated euphonia, Euphonia chlorotica, and green-winged saltator, Saltator similis. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Guyard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephines zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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