EditorialXema furcatum, Print, The Sabine's gull (Xema sabini), also known as the fork-tailed gull or xeme, is a small gull. Its generic placement is disputed; some authors treat it as the sole species in the genus Xema as Xema sabini, while others retain it in...
EditorialFork-tailed Gull, Black-backed Gull (Xema sabini, Larus sabini), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 441 (vol. 7), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made in th...
EditorialXema sabini, Print, The Sabine's gull (Xema sabini), also known as the fork-tailed gull or xeme, is a small gull. Its generic placement is disputed; some authors treat it as the sole species in the genus Xema as Xema sabini, while others retain it in t...
EditorialCoracias caudata, Print, The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African member of the roller (or Coraciidae) family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula. It prefers op...
EditorialDicrurus macrocercus, Print, The black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka east...
EditorialFork-tailed Flycatcher, Rocky Mountain Anteater, and Female Golden-winged Warbler. Dimensions: plate: 34.6 x 26.2 cm (13 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.) sheet: 37.6 x 28.9 cm (14 13/16 x 11 3/8 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving with etching on wove paper.
EditorialFork-tailed Flycatcher, Rocky Mountain Anteater, and Female Golden-winged Warbler. Dimensions: plate: 34.6 x 26.2 cm (13 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.) sheet: 37.6 x 28.9 cm (14 13/16 x 11 3/8 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving with etching on wove paper.
EditorialFork-tailed woodnymph, Thalurania furcata eriphile (Ornismya eriphile). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbirds, Histoire Natu...
EditorialLowland peltops, Peltops blainvillii (Fork-tailed gaper, Eurylaimus blainvilli). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinbur...
EditorialShark sucker fish, Remora remora (Fork-tailed remora, Echeneis remora). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1801.
EditorialSwallow-tailed bee-eater, Merops hirundineus (Fork-tailed, blue-vented bee-eater, Merops hirundinaceus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Wester...
EditorialFork-tailed woodnymph hummingbird, Thalurania furcata. (Furcated hummingbird, Trochilus furcata). Illustration by George Shaw, engraved by Frederick Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Mis...
EditorialFork-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus savana savana, rufous flycatcher-thrush, Stizorhina fraseri, and blue dacnis, Dacnis cayana. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Wor...