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The Museum of Natural History
by William S. Dallas, F.L.S.
drawn by various artists, engraved by J.W. Lowry
published by Wm. MacKenzie: Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, New York
circa 1850-1860

Original 160+-year-old Hand-coloured engravings • Titles in English and Latin
Sheet size: approximately 7.25 x 10.75 inches.


Please click on thumbnails below for a better look at each print.

The digital watermark on images deters image theft and does not appear on actual print.

Vultures
Plate 1

Arabian Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
Papa King Vulture


$59.95

Falcon, Vulture, Eagle
Plate 2

Cream-bellied Falcon
Bearded Vulture
Martial Eagle


$59.95


Plate 3

Rough-legged Buzzard (Hawk)
Secretary Bird
Brown Owl


$59.95

Swift, Swallows, etc.
Plate 5

Chimney Swallow
House Martin
Common Swift
Esculent Swallow


$59.95

Goat Suckers
Plate 6

Common Goat Sucker
Europoeus Javanicus
Leona Goat Sucker


$59.95

Trogon, Kingfisher
Plate 7

Trogon resplendens
Kingfisher
Long-tailed Jacamar


Hummingbirds, etc.
Plate 8

Great Jacamar
Delalande's Humminbird
Trochilus granatinus
Hoopoe
Bee-eater


Creeper, Nuthatch, etc.
Plate 9

Creeper
Wall Creeper
Nuthatch
Lyre Bird


$59.95

Robin Red Breast, Mockingbird, etc.
Plate 10

Long-tailed Titmouse
Red-breast (Robin)
Mockingbird
Spotted Flycatcher


Magpie, etc.
Plate 11

Great Cinereous Shrike
Magpie
Orange Rock Cock


$59.95

Paradise Bird, Starling, etc.
Plate 12

Emerald Paradise Bird
Touraco
Hornbill
Starling


Skylark, etc.
Plate 13

Banded Tanager
Chaffinch
Ortolan
Skylark


Parrots, etc.
Plate 15

Yellow Parrakeet
Long-nosed Cockatoo
Grey Parrot
Grey Small-tongued Parrot
Bonneted Psittacule


$59.95

Toucan, etc.
Plate 16

Red-breasted Toucan
Anacari
Great Black Woodpecker
Southern three-toed Woodpecker


Pigeons, Doves, etc.
Plate 17

Cuckoo
Wryneck
White-headed Pigeon
New Holland Pigeon
Stock Dove


Pigeons, cock, etc.
Plate 18

Waalia Pigeon
White-booted Pigeon
Crowned Pigeon
Domestic Cock
Nepaul Horned Pheasant


$59.95

Pheasants, etc.
Plate 19

Amherst's Pheasant
Guinea Fowl
Fire-backed Pheasant
Silver Pheasant


see enlargement for flaws

Partridge, turkey, etc.
Plate 20

Freycinets Mankirio
Curassow
Red-legged Partridge
Brush Turkey
White Shearbill
Cristatus


Ostrich, etc.
Plate 21

Nandu
Ostrich
Cassowary


$59.95

Emu, Kiwi, etc.
Plate 22

Shaw's Apterys (Kiwi)
Emeu (Emu)
Common Thick Knee
Great Bustard


$59.95

Plover, Sandpiper, etc.
Plate 23

Brazen-winged Courser
Collared Praticole
Grey Sand-piper
Golden Plover
Pied Oyster-catcher
Maregrave's Cariama


$59.95

Heron, Egret, etc.
Plate 24

Common Crane
Great Egret
Stellar's Bittern
Boat-bill


$59.95

Stork, Ibis, etc.
Plate 25

White Stork
Roseate Spoonbill
Senegal Jabiru

$59.95

Ibis, etc.
Plate 26

Tufted Umbre
Madagascar Open-bill
Milky Ibis


$59.95

Avocet, etc.
Plate 27

Avocet
Common Snipe
Chinese Jacana


$59.95

Water Rail, etc.
Plate 28

Water Rail
Horned Screamer
Sultana Bird
Gallinule

$59.95

Flamingo, Geese
Plate 29

Red Flamingo
Wild Goose
New Holland Pigeon Goose


Swan, ducks, etc.
Plate 30

Wild Swan
Shoveller Duck
Lobated Duck
Goosander (Merganser)


$59.95

Mammal, fish, amphibians, insects, etc. from this series

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