EditorialLittle bittern, Ixobrychus minutus. (Little brown bittern, Ardea minuta) Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialLittle bittern, Ixobrychus minutus. (Little brown bittern, Ardea minuta) Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.
EditorialLittle bittern, Ixobrychus minutus. 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 en...