EditorialSmallest or bee hummingbird, Mellisuga helenae. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1799.
EditorialThe Black Muray (Muraenae helenae varietas). Dated: published 1754. Dimensions: plate: 35.2 x 25.4 cm (13 7/8 x 10 in.) sheet: 45.1 x 31.3 cm (17 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialThe Black Muray (Muraenae helenae varietas). Dated: published 1754. Dimensions: plate: 35.2 x 25.4 cm (13 7/8 x 10 in.) sheet: 45.1 x 31.3 cm (17 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialTrochilus helenae, Print, Streamertail, The streamertails are hummingbirds in the genus Trochilus that is endemic to Jamaica. It is the type genus of the Trochilidae family. Today most authorities consider the two taxa in this genus as separate species...
EditorialBee hummingbird or zunzuncito, Mellisuga helenae, and amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
EditorialA map of Africa dated 1610. Tabula Aphricae nova sumta ex operibus L. Tercerae ... Joannes a? Duetechum junior fecit. Miliaria Germania Communia ... 150[= 47 mm.]. (Insula D. Helenae, etc, Insulae et cercis Mocambique descriptio, etc). [Deventer], [16...
EditorialThe Black Muray (Muraenae helenae varietas). Dated: published 1754. Dimensions: plate: 35.2 x 25.4 cm (13 7/8 x 10 in.) sheet: 45.1 x 31.3 cm (17 3/4 x 12 5/16 in.). Medium: hand-colored engraving on laid paper.
EditorialBee hummingbird or zunzuncito, Mellisuga helenae, and amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina. Handcoloured lithograph from Th. Lejeune's Complete Works of Buffon, Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Brussels, 1837.
EditorialSmallest or bee hummingbird, Mellisuga helenae. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1799.