Day Time Collection (#98)

Tadorna tadorna, common shelduck
Plate 11 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phoenicurus ochruros, black redstart
Plate 52 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Silurian seafloor
An artists impression of the seafloor of the shelf sea surrounding Britain during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago), with trilobites, brachiopods, rugose corals, and molluscs

Dipus annulatus, gerbil
Plate 10 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Alectoris rufa, red-legged partridge
Plate 14 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Sylvia undata, Dartford warbler
Plate 59 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Delphinus delphis & Tursiops tru
White-beaked dolphin, short-beaked common dolphin & common bottlenose dolphin. Plate 50 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Interglacial Landscape
Artists impression of England during a Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years before present) interglacial period. Rhinoceros feed on the sparse vegetation in the distance

Cursorius cursor, cream-coloured courser
Plate 44 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Tringa totanus, common redshank
Plate 54 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Proterozoic Ice Age

The Palaeontology Wing at the Natural History Museum, London

Ficedula albicollis, collared flycatcher
Plate 18 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Porzana pusilla, Baillons crake
Plate 89 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstart
Plate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pteropus sp. flying fox
Plate 1. From a collection of watercolour sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish by William Webb Ellis (c. 1756-1785), made during Captain Cooks third voyage of discovery, 1776-1780

Pericrocotus flammeues, scarlet minivet
Plate 40, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Emberiza rustica, rustic bunting
Plate 24 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Glareola pratincola, collared pratincole
Plate 46 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, Russian sturgeon
Plate 13 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Anser fabalis, bean goose
Plate 2 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

The Tower of Pelee, looking North
The breaking clouds and vapors uncovering the giant obelisk. Photograph taken June 13, 1902. Figure XXXII in Heilprin, A. (1908)

Limosa limosa, black-tailed godwit
Plate 50 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Chlidonias leucopterus, white-winged black tern
Plate 76 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Sylvia atricapilla, blackcap
Plate 60 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Anthus petrosus, rock pipit
Plate 10 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Sturnus roseus, rosy starling
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan
Plate 9 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Afrotis afra, black bustard
Ff.133. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Otis afra and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Pluvialis apricaria, Eurasian golden plover

Turdus pilaris, fieldfare
Plate 35 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Carboniferous coal forest
Artists impression of the swamp forests of ferns and other non-flowering plants which covered much of Britain towards the end of the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago)

Huso huso, beluga sturgeon
Plate 10 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Xema sabini, Sabines gull
Plate 67 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Prunella modularis, dunnock
Plate 55 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Thalassoica antarctica, Antarctic petrel
Ff. 95. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Procellaria antarctica made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Phalacrocorax punctatus, spotted shag
Ff. 103. Watercolour painting by George Porster (1773) annotated Pelecanus punctatus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Nestor meridionalis, kaka
Ff. 14, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Calidris minuta, little stint
Plate 72 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Limnodromus griseus, short-billed dowitcher
Plate 76 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Odobenus rosmarus, walrus
Trichechus rosmarus, walrus. Plate 12 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Galerida cristata, crested lark
Plate 17 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Carduelis chloris, European greenfinch

Hepaticites

Ceyx erithaca, Oriental dwarf kingfisher
Plate 36, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Columba oenas, stock dove
Plate 2 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Cuculus canorus, common cuckoo chick
Plate 68 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

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