The parrot of Carolina and the cypress of America mb-height 249 View of workmen hoisting girders

View of workmen hoisting girders for bridge across Farringdon Street

Original: carbon colour print [Autotype]

View of a diver recovering a small cannon from the sea bed

The crowd in the foreground is watching the procession passing in front of the opticians

giving an account of several stones found in bags formed by a protrusion of the coats of the bladder

The parrot of Carolina and the cypress of America mb-height 249 View of workmen hoisting girders'Psitticus caroliniensis', the parrot of Carolina, perched on a branch of the cypress of America (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Conuropsis carolinensis, the Carolina Parakeet; Taxodium distichum, the bald cypress). This bird species is now extinct, the last specimen having died in captivity in 1918. Plate 11 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark