EditorialGolden-backed bishop, Euplectes aureus, and orange-winged pytilia, Pytilia afra. (Golden-backed finch, Loxia aurea, and red-faced finch, Fringilla afra.) Little red-headed loxia from Angola and golden-backed bird from Benguela both in possession of Mar...
EditorialRed-headed trogon, Harpactes erythrocephalus (Fasciated curucui, Trogon fasciatus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822.
EditorialCallistoleon erythrocephalus (Red-headed myrmeleon, Myrmeleon erythrocephalum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1814.
EditorialRed-faced malkoha, Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus. Vulnerable. (Red-headed malkoha, Cuculus pyrrhocephalus.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822.
EditorialRed-headed finch, Amadina erythrocephala (Fringilla erythrocephala) from Mauritius, and unknown brown warbler in the possesion of Marmaduke Tunstall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology, B. White, Lon...
EditorialPyrrhula Erythrocephala, Red-headed Bullfinch. 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 fascinati...
EditorialFalco Chicquera, Red-necked Falcon or Red-headed Merlin. 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...
EditorialRed-headed vulture, Sarcogyps calvus. Critically endangered. (Pondicherry vulture, Vultur ponticerianus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Natura...
EditorialCommon pochard or red-headed wigeon, Aythra ferina (male). 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...