EditorialEuropean tree frog, Hyla arborea, water rail, Rallus aquaticus, and corn crake or landrail, Crex crex. Rainette verte, rale d'eau, rale de genets. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-...
EditorialCorn crake, Crex crex. Near threatened. 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 an...