Animal Marking Gallery

'Dipper or Water-Ousel - Cin'clus aquat'icus', c1910, (1910). Artist: George James Rankin

'Dipper or Water-Ousel - Cin'clus aquat'icus', c1910, (1910). From Britain's Birds and Their Nests, by A. Landsborough Thomson. [The Waverley Book Company, Limited, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London & Edinburgh, 1910]

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Phoenicura Cinclorhyncha, actually Petrocincla cinclorhynca

Phoenicura Cinclorhyncha, actually Petrocincla cinclorhynca. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist, he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascination with birds from the east began in the late 1820s when a collection of birds from the Himalayan mountains arrived at the Society's museum and Gould conceived the idea of publishing a volume of imperial folio sized hand-coloured lithographs of the eighty species, with figures of a hundred birds. Elizabeth Gould made the drawings and transferred them to the large lithographic stones. They are called Gould plates.

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Parra Sinensis, Pheasant-Tailed Jacana.A jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus

Parra Sinensis, Pheasant-Tailed Jacana.A jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist, he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascination with birds from the east began in the late 1820s when a collection of birds from the Himalayan mountains arrived at the Society's museum and Gould conceived the idea of publishing a volume of imperial folio sized hand-coloured lithographs of the eighty species, with figures of a hundred birds. Elizabeth Gould made the drawings and transferred them to the large lithographic stones. They are called Gould plates.

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