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Water birds

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  • A crested boatbill (Cancroma cochlearia) and common heron (Ardea cinerea). Coloured engraving, ca. 1808, after S. Edwards.
  • Trandate tablets : sandpiper.
  • A heron and ducks by the water's edge. Engraving by F. Place, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Two birds, an avocet and spoonbill, by a pond. Engraving.
  • A roseate tern (Sterna species). Etching by Eliza D.
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    A common tern (Sterna hirundo). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.

    | Date: 1875 | Reference: 42924i
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    A little crake bird. Etching by Eliza D.

    D., Eliza. | Reference: 42944i
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    A bittern and one of its feathers. Etching.

    | Reference: 43347i
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    Trandate tablets : grey plover.

    | Date: 1980
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    A fallow deer, perch and four wading or water birds. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears, 18--.

    | Reference: 42370i
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