EditorialTrumpet-shaped beakervase with a metal birdcage, Trumpet-shaped porcelain vase, painted in underglaze blue and on the enamel red, black and gold. On the wall a pattern of peonies interrupted by four recessed, leaf-shaped boxes with a swastika or grainy...
EditorialPhasianus colchicus, Print, The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus, "pheasant". The species name colchicus is Latin for "of Colchis" (modern day Georgia), a co...
EditorialPhasianus soemmeringii, Print, The "typical" pheasant genus Phasianus in the family Phasianidae consists of at least one species. The genus name comes from Latin phasianinus "pheasant-like" (from phasianus, "pheasant"). Both Phasianus and "pheasant" or...
EditorialPhasianus tanalus, Print, The "typical" pheasant genus Phasianus in the family Phasianidae consists of at least one species. The genus name comes from Latin phasianinus "pheasant-like" (from phasianus, "pheasant"). Both Phasianus and "pheasant" origina...
EditorialCentropus phasianus, Print, Coucal, A coucal is one of about 30 species of birds in the cuckoo family. All of them belong in the subfamily Centropodinae and the genus Centropus. Unlike many Old World cuckoos, coucals are not brood parasites, though the...
EditorialCentropus phasianus, Print, Coucal, A coucal is one of about 30 species of birds in the cuckoo family. All of them belong in the subfamily Centropodinae and the genus Centropus. Unlike many Old World cuckoos, coucals are not brood parasites, though the...
EditorialPhasianus colchicus hybridus, Print, The "typical" pheasant genus Phasianus in the family Phasianidae consists of at least one species. The genus name comes from Latin phasianinus "pheasant-like" (from phasianus, "pheasant"). Both Phasianus and "pheasa...
EditorialPhasianus colchicus, Print, The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus, "pheasant". The species name colchicus is Latin for "of Colchis" (modern day Georgia), a co...
EditorialDes Pavots rouges et violets. Red and violet poppies, Papaver species, and Chinese ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus colchicus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curie...
EditorialDes Pavots rouges et violets. Red and violet poppies, Papaver species, and Chinese ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus colchicus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curie...
EditorialJungle cock or Indian pheasant, Phasianus indicus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815.
EditorialPhasianus Pucrasia (male), Perdix chukar. 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 wi...
EditorialPhasianus Albo-Cristatus, Pheasant. 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 bir...
EditorialPhasianus Pucrasia (female), Perdix chukar. 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 ...
EditorialCommon pheasant, Phasianus colchicus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and ...