Game Birds Gallery

Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, and red-breasted

Scrubfowl (orange-footed scrubfowl, Megapodius reinwardt?) and Cape francolin, Pternistis capensis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

Keep the Home Fires Burning, WW1

Scenes showing women carrying on and fulfilling men's roles during the First World War while husbands, fathers, brothers and sons serve in the trenches. In this case, perhaps displaying the bias of the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News in which this illustration was published, the lady in question gardens, farms, exercises horses, goes hunting, feeds his game birds and looks after a convalscent charger. The title alludes to the popular, patriotic WW1 song written by Ivor Novello and Lena Ford. Date: 1916

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

KA-598 Thresher / Foxtail Shark

KA-598
Thresher / Foxtail Shark
Distribution: Eastern & Western Atlantic / Central Pacific / Indo-west Pacific
Alopias vulpinus
Usually lives at depths over 200m & only sighted rarely - The Common Thresher Shark ranges in size from 16.5 to 20ft long - Feeds on Squid & Fish corraling them with its elongated tail / stunning them with slaps from it and catching them with its very sharp but small teeth - Decreasing in numbers because of overfishing (it is hunted for meat and its fins)
Kurt Amsler
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