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  • A nightingale (Luscinia philomela). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.
  • Two young women pluck a bird which has a man's head, while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A young woman convalescing in a country garden watches a bird feed on bread. Coloured line engraving by C. Cousen after M.B. Foster.
  • Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.
  • A roller bird (Coracias garrulus). Wood engraving.
  • Two water birds: a moorhen and a crake. Coloured engraving.
  • A male-midwife suggestively examines an attractive pregnant woman, her disgruntled husband is led out of the room by a servant. Line engraving, 1773.
  • A shore bird, possibly a pipit. Engraving by P. Tempest, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • A ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) in both summer and winter plumage. Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by R. Wallis after S. Owen.
  • Two birds, possibly cuckoos. Etching by W. Hayes, ca. 1780.
  • Birds of the waterside shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Hunting: a man stalking partridges (?) (top), a trap for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • In chronic bronchitis and asthma Choledyl provides effective theophylline blood levels for more than 6 hours : kite.
  • Becotide (beclomethasone dipropionate BP), inhaler and rotacaps : goldcrest.
  • Trandate tablets : wood warbler.
  • A ring-necked gull. Etching.
  • A fledgeling gull. Etching.
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
  • A snake, a Cucumis plant and two birds. Engraving.
  • Becotide (beclomethasone dipropionate BP), inhaler and rotacaps : whimbrel.
  • An unusual degree of tolerance ... Paynocil : the ox-pecker.
  • A maraschino label illustrated with two birds and a coat of arms. Engraving, 19th century.
  • A stork. Etching with engraving.
  • Hunting: traps and hides for catching birds. Coloured engraving.
  • A crested boat-bill. Etching with engraving.
  • Birds including a hoopoe on the branches of a tree. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Trandate tablets : redbreast.
  • A cormorant. Etching with engraving.
  • A oronoko coracina bird (Coracina oronocensis). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.