EditorialHydrophasianus chirurgus, Print, The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Like all other jacanas they have elongated toes and nails that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shall...
EditorialHydrophasianus chirurgus, Print, The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Like all other jacanas they have elongated toes and nails that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shall...
EditorialPheasant-tailed jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Chinese jacana, Parra sinensis). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824.
EditorialPheasant-tailed jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, and horned screamer, Anhima cornuta. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natur...
EditorialBrown Cuckoo-Dove, Macropygia phasianella (Columba? phasianella, Pheasant-tailed dove), native to Australia. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by Edward Lear from Prideaux John Selby's volume "Pigeons" in Sir William ...