EditorialTire Rail, Carolinasqueer (Porzana carolina, Ortygometra carolinus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 306 (vol. 5), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings made i...
EditorialOrtygometra tabuensis, Print, The Kosrae crake or Kusaie Island crake (Porzana monasa), sometimes also stated as Kittlitz's rail, is an extinct bird from the family Rallidae. It occurred on the island of Kosrae and perhaps on Ponape in the south-wester...
EditorialBaillon's crake, Porzana pusilla, and great northern loon, Gavia immer. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Pa...
EditorialSpotted crake, Porzana porzana. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own "Natural History of British Birds," London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engrav...