Pharomacrus Antisianus Size:16" x 16" Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

photographed by the National Photo Company in 1923 on 4x5 glass plate negative

Zone Map of North America bird migration from 1910

From the first edition of Haeckel's work on the new arts around 1900

just north of Arabia

Pharomacrus Antisianus Size:16" x 16" Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteJohn Gould, regarded by many as the greatest bird artist and publisher in Britain, produced fifteen folio sets during his career. The book on view is dedicated to a tropical bird called the "trogon." In his preface to the book, Gould wrote: "If not strictly elegant in form, the Trogons in the brilliancy of their plumage are surpassed only by the Trochilidae [toucans]: their splendor amply compensates for every other defect." The illustrations for this