EditorialMelithreptus lunulatus, Print, Melithreptus is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. Its members are native to Australia. It is generally considered to contain seven species, although some authors have classified the related blue-faced...
EditorialShomen Kongo: The Blue-Faced Kongo, 17th century. Japan, early Edo period (1615-1868). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; painting only: 69.5 x 29.3 cm (27 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.); including mounting: 146.7 x 32.1 cm (57 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.).
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a blue-faced executioner beheading St. John the Baptist, who is kneeling in a tower doorway, with Salome behind him holding a golden bowl, with a caption reading, ‘Cy est seint iohan decollee’ . Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Th...
EditorialRed-tailed monkey, Cercopithecus ascanius (Blue-faced monkey, Simia ascanius). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Pass after an illustration by Jean Baptiste Audebert from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, London, 1795.
EditorialMasked shining parrot, Prosopeia personata (Blue-faced parrot, Psittacus capistratus). Handcoloured engraving of a specimen in the Linnean Society Museum from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829.