Cinerea Gallery

Yellow-billed oxpecker, Buphagus africanus

Yellow-billed oxpecker, Buphagus africanus, and orange-wattled kokako, Callaeas cinerea (extinct). . 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 Madame Rebel, 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

Ink mushroom, Coprinus atramentarius 1

Ink mushroom, Coprinus atramentarius 1, and grey clavaria, Clavaria cinerea 2. . Ink mushroom, Coprinus atramentarius 1, and grey clavaria, Clavaria cinerea 2. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, Robert Hardwicke, London 1862. Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist who worked at the India Museum and the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

Different Non-european songbirds illustration 1897

Different birds
Original edition from my own archives
Source : "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon" 1897
Non-European songbirds: 1) Waxbill (Habropyga astrild, or Estrilda astrild); 2) Black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes, or Habropyga cinerea); 3) Red avadavat (Amandava amandava, or Pytelia amandava); 4) Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata, or Zonaeginthus castanotis); 5) Cut-throat finch (Amadina fasciata, or Spermestes fasciata); 6) Bronze mannikin (Lonchura cucullata, or Spermestes cucullata); 7) Black-headed weaver (Ploceus melanocephalus, or Hyphantornis melanocephalus); 8) Long-tailed paradise whydah (Vidua paradisaea); 9) Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora, or Padda oryzivora); 10) Brazilian tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius, or Ramphocelus brasiliensis); 11) Red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea, or Leiothrix luteus); 12) Red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana); 13) Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis, or Cardinalis virginianus)

© Ralf Hettler